URBANIZATION AND TRANSFORMATION PROCESS OF THE POSITION OF ALBANIAN WOMEN IN KOSOVO

Abstract

On the basis of fieldwork investigations in Pridiina and existing literature concerning »woman antropology«, the author found out that the role of woman in town was only formally and not essentially ditferent from the concept of »ideal« woman which is prescribed by traditional rules. Employment, economic independen- ce, child bearing are elements that can help to improve her position in family, but cannot give authority to her. Authority is created through behavior which comple- tely suits the patriarchal model. In the consciousness of employed woman, who believes that she has overcome the traditional framework of her existance, the decisive factor of her self-fulfilIment is still the complete subordination and adjustment to collective, traditional ideology and the concept of »demure« and »ideal« woman.