Everyday Life in Womanly Receptions(The Case of Study: Housewives of Hamedan)

The lived experiences of women in receptions can be a subject of sociological inquiry, since women usually practice their personal lives, concerns, problems, and intersubjective conflicts in these spaces. The qualitative scrutiny of these festive circles as the text in the total context of daily feminine life can lead us to an understanding of the significatory and identity-making layers of daily female acts, habits and rites. The arena of study in this research, are women participating in womanly receptions of Hamedan. After interviewing with 20 individuals of the women of arena of study, the theoretical fullfilment was obtained, and then the data analysis, based on the results of interviews and observations, started. According to the results, individual and cultural factors were recognized as motivating categories for participating in womanly receptions. As one the main reasons in turning to these womanly receptions is a kind of feminine space or mood which is dominant on these receptions. The outcome of the attendence of women in these receptions is the formation of new kinds of femininity and mutation in traditional feminine models. What as the core factor has the ability to make relation amongst the motivations, reasons and outcomes of women's attending the receptions is the female life style which shapes their acts, descisions and thoughts. In this life style which is also sustained through society and dominant discourses the selfsameness of women with home and the private domains is naturalized as if it is the only way of living and experiencing femininity.