(Ne)vidljivost žena u arhivskim fondovima i zbirkama Arhiva Bosne i Hercegovine (1878–1941)
(In)Visibility of Women in the Archive Funds and Collections of the Archives of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1878-1941)

Summary/Abstract: In Bosnian-Herzegovinian historiography, few books have been written that address women and the so-called women’s question. There are two reasons for such a situation. The first is the fact that it is an issue that belongs to topics that are not of great political, social, and “national” interest, and the second reason is the lack of relevant archival material related to women. The representation of the archival material from which women’s history can be read in the Archives of Bosnia and Herzegovina – and we assume that it is the same in other Bosnian and Herzegovina archives – is insignificant. This paper aims to provide an insight into the (in)visibility of women in archival funds and collections in the Archives of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the period from 1878 to 1941. We have limited ourselves to this period because during it the entire Bosnian-Herzegovinian society went through major social and economic transformations, so the position of women, due to the resulting changes, was significantly altered. Namely, in this period, women became more socially visible, they came out into the public space as public officials, doctors, educators, and workers in small businesses, and as such they became visible in archival records created in this period.

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