The article deals with the issue of woman’s social status in the traditional Chechen
family. The research is based on historical as well as ethnographic materials. The attention is
paid to the meanings of words which used to denote a woman’s status as her social role was
being transformed. Woman’s rights on conclusion as well as dissolution of marriage are
mentioned. The author proposes his own view of the space occupied by women in Chechen
families. The scholar comes to the conclusion that Chechen people used to respect and revere
women as daughters, sisters, wives, mothers as some kind of domestic goddesses.read in PDF>>>
