Study of stereotypes about women in Russian phraseological units

the classification of stereotypes about women into natural and social categories, combined with the theory of linguistic stereotypes, offers a fresh perspective for analyzing the portrayal of women in idioms. Russian idioms contain positive stereotypes about women, such as kindness and domesticity; however, influenced by religious norms, patriarchal society, production relations, and gender division of labor – which regulate women’s status, roles, and behavior – most stereotypes are negative, depicting traits like weepiness, fickleness, and talkativeness. This phenomenon reflects how patriarchal consciousness shapes and reinforces specific expectations and prejudices toward women, convincingly demonstrating that linguistic stereotypes represent subjective and persistent perceptions of social groups and phenomena.

Russian idioms, women, stereotypes, linguistic stereotypes