For
centuries in Albania, young, unmarried, virgin women living in
households where all the men had died or been imprisoned, swapped
genders and lived as men--becoming "sworn virgins." With changing
gender roles and modernization, the practice is dying out, but some
sworn virgins still remain.
Take 78-year-old Pashe Keqi, for
example, who became a sworn virgin at 20 after her father was killed.
Pashe had a a housefull of women to take care of and a buring desire to
carry a hunting rifle in public. According to this totally amazing New York Times article:
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