“FEMINISM” AND FEMINIST MOTIFS IN KARAKALPAK FAIRY TALES

Abstract

Our article is devoted to the problem of feminism and feminist motives in Karakalpak fairy tales. Note that feminism and the feminist movement belong to a series of political, ideological, and legal issues where violence is not allowed, and women enjoy all rights on an equal basis with men. The symbol of feminism is the mirror of the planet Venus with a fist inside, which is used all over the world. At the same time, feminism is a system of holistic view of life. Both in the past and in the present, feminists have fought for women's rights, suffrage, the right to hold public office, the right to work, the right to property, and many others. All this, of course, is very important in today's world.
This article is more specifically devoted to feminist motifs in Karakalpak folk tales. The Karakalpaks have a fairly wide and diverse fairy-tale repertoire, among which such fairy tales as “Gulziba”, “The Sorcerer”, “The Golden Stone”, “The Stepmother”, “The Rich Man's Son and the Poor Man's Son”, “The Good-natured Old Man and the Magpie Thief”, “The Cunning Fox”, “The Donkey and the Camel”, “The Cunning of the Donkey”, “The Golden-headed Snake”, “The Three Brothers”, “Ziba and Zeineb”, “The Four Abdulls”, "The Clever Woman”, “How the Girl outsmarted the Khan”, etc. In most of these fairy tales, in which female images prevail, they are quite intelligent, intelligent and distinguished by their foresight. When disputes arise between them and men, they come out victorious. We should also note here that while researchers of other literatures have addressed the problem of feminist motifs in folklore to one degree or another, we have not encountered such works in the research of Azerbaijani scientists. Nevertheless, the problem itself is quite interesting, because when they began to study this issue based on the material of karakalpak fairy tales, they saw in the behavior of karakalpak women a struggle for their legal rights, for maintaining a proper role in society.