The Reflection of Social Status of Women in the Shahroud Chansons

Women have long been the subject of much philosophical, political, social, cultural and literary discussions in various cultures and civilizations. This issue has been studied many times from different perspectives, especially in the field of classical and official Iranian literature. Folk songs and chansons as an important part of folklore and one of the important aspects of popular culture has many contradictory and sometimes thought-provoking themes that have not been seriously addressed so far. The present article intends to retrieve, explain and sociologically analyze the roles of women in these poems in a descriptive-analytical manner and through the analysis of the content of these chansons in the geographical area of   Shahroud city. Accordingly, it was found that the position of women in such eulogies are in the role of lover, wife, and mother.  From a sociological point of view, although sometimes the female element sits in the "other inferior" row, it is generally a manifestation of cooperation and assistance as well as a symbol of generationalism.  From a literary point of view, women have received high reflections and roles such as the subject of the pain of shame and distance, the symbol of piety and loyalty, the symbol of love, and finally the unattainable beloved