Vasilika Research Paper

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According to Coward (1983), there is no societies that excluded men from involving in political rights and authorities like the way women were excluded from these domain in nineteenth-century Western society and men could represent women in the political sphere, but it is impossible for women to representing men. In the Greek village of Vasilika (Friedl, 1967), there are two types of public official status in the village that restricted for women to hold positions which are in higher religious offices and village political posts. Friedl further explained that women of Vasilika can’t be a priest or cantons, nor they get elected to the village council. This is basically due to the custom rather than law, but even though the women in that village