Gender –oriented Clichés of the Family Roles in some Prosy Educational Texts

In the contemporary era, one of the functions of the social critique is to review and to rethink the concepts and definitions related to the institutions and inter – person and collective relations as reflected in old Persian texts with discovery and critical approach. Family is the oldest institution reproducing the gender clichés from the past to the present time. Prosy educational texts reveal a great deal of such definitions in a persistent and structured narrative form. In these narrations, one can see and analyze that the concepts and relations among persons and the definitions allocated to wives, husbands, fathers, mothers, children and their rights have been hugely transformed as compared to the new world, and which concepts are redefined with reference to their traditional origins. In gender-oriented clichés frequently referred to in these text and based on the power and culture pyramid, recognized at that time, men were responsible for the family livings; wives and children were under the men's guardianship due to their deficiency in reasoning and childhood. The relationship among family members were recognized not on the basis of the passion but on basis of the duty and power. A particular policy and system governed it. Under that system, the aim was the establishment of a unilateral and pre-determined system administered by men within the family. The predefined and different gender-based roles and education were seen for girls and boys