Woman at the frontier of the Lower Volga region

Abstract

The article is devoted to the study of the gender aspect of the frontier theory within the framework of cultural contacts in the Lower Volga region in the XIX century. Frontier is a territory on which there is a constant interaction of cultural systems that continuously change, influence each other and assimilate. Such an environment leads to the formation of a new person with characteristic features: special behavior, outlook, appearance. The influence of the severe conditions of the frontier is not only exerted on the male, but also on the female population. Cultural elements of the female world are transformed under the influence of intensive poly-national interaction. Such changes contribute to the emergence of unique roles that a woman performs, actively interacting with her surrounding cultural environment.The lower Volga region, as a multicultural and polyconfessional territory, is one of the examples of the formation of women's frontier roles, which manifest themselves in different spheres: education, economy, religion and lead to changes in the cultural basis of the population.Consideration of such phenomena in the spectrum of the frontier theory allows us to identify the main roles that the woman performed in an environment of intensive cultural interaction, as well as to identify the main factors affecting the formation of these roles in the Lower Volga region.