Albanian Custom Fades – Woman as Family Man – NYTimes.com

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June 26, 2008

Interesting story in the New York Times this morning about gender role intrigue in an extremely isolated and rigorously traditional people in northern Albania:

Albanian Custom Fades – Woman as Family Man – NYTimes.com: “For centuries, in the closed-off and conservative society of rural northern Albania, swapping genders was considered a practical solution for a family with a shortage of men.”

I think it would make a great, epic novel. Please, someone, write it.

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