This is an article about the "Sworn Virgins" in Albania who took an oath of virginity to have the same status as men within a family because so many men had died within clans because of blood feuds...
Qamile is one of just a handful of "sworn virgins" still alive in Albania: women, typically from poor rural communities in the north of the country, who opted to change their status, though not their sex.
According to the sociologist, Zydi Dervishi, who has interviewed more than 20 such women, some took such a life-changing decision in order to avoid an unwanted marriage; others, to make up for the absence of a male heir in the family.
He says that in Albania's historically patriarchal society, a family without a son or a father figure was often considered leaderless.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7682240.stm
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