The Influence of Gender on Bereavement Behaviors In Persian Personal Elegies

Among the factors affecting the quality of mourning, "Gender", as a cultural-social element, is important and worthy of study. It should be noted that the concept of gender is different from what is defined at the time of a person's birth and is classified as a social-identity category. Characteristics and behaviors change based on the reactions of each of the desired female/male groups, and after that, the person develops certain gendered behaviors. This causes a person to see the agency of his talent and capacity to initiate and guide his actions against reactions such as: the feeling of control, power and self-awareness under the domination of the ruling environment (ibid.: 45). What may seem normal in the daily lives of men and women is often the result of roles that the culture has produced and thus feels normal. Therefore, gender is more than a natural and innate factor, it is a cultural and social construct that can be discussed and analyzed as one of the internal stimuli or important controllers of various behaviors in human behavior. Women and men poets are the most lively human emotions and influences. They have displayed their loss and their life experience in the mourning process in their obituaries and poems.