 In her article, she writes", “Sworn Virgin” is the term given to a biological female in the Balkans who has chosen to take on the social identity of a man for life.As a tradition dating back hundreds of years, this was sometimes necessary in a society that lived within tribal clans, followed the Kanun, an archaic code of law, and maintained an oppressive rule over the female gender.Young girls were commonly forced into arranged marriages with much older men in distant villages.""