Comparative review of the kazakh and mongolian historical forms of image of women

Аннотация

During research of gender issue raises in the philosophical and cultural theoretical approach. Image of women in Kazakh culture and world perception is studied thoroughly from archetype analysis approach. In order to reveal contemporary Kazakh women symbolic signs and historical impacts it is analyzed Mongolian mythology, pre-Turkic and the ancient Kazakhs religious believes and further traditional Kazakh philosophy. In Kazakh traditional culture a woman was highly evaluated in a society as a person who give a birth, preserver of family’s harmony, the one who educate coming generation, and the one who wishes all the good to all universe. By coming back to historical cultural pre-conditions of contemporary condition of Kazakh women we wanted revive traditional philosophical cultural sources in order to solve gender issue problems in current times. In order to find peculiar way, there should be made harmony between traditional world perception and contemporary spiritual directions.
Key words: symbol, feminism, love, Umai, beauty, gender, freedom, gentility, family, generation.