Konstrukcija ženskog identiteta u pravaškim humorističko-satiričkim listovima druge polovine 19. stoljeća
CONSTRUCTION OF FEMALE IDENTITY IN THE HUMOUR AND SATIRE NEWSPAPER S OF THE PARTY OF RIGHTS OF THE SECOND HALF OF THE 19TH CENTURY

Summary/Abstract: Based on the humour and satire newspapers, as well as the existing literature, the paper is attempting to portray the views of the Party of Rights, one of the dominant political parties in the 19th century, to women’s issues. The aim was to reinterpret historical reality in which the woman will get the status of the subject in historical research, by reading anew traditional sources and using different methods. The Party of Rights was the first party that had used caricature as a means of visual propaganda. Their design of feminine identity and the favouritism of the patriarchal social order bear a reflection of wider global thinking. The qualitative analysis of the six most common topics has confirmed that the Party of Rights were preoccupied by the women’s alienation from their national identity and their acceptance of the foreign progress. They had tried to control and exclude women from political life, provided that they used motherhood as one of the main mechanisms of their involvement in the political order. The Party of Rights’ view that women present perpetual threat to political order has determined their opinion on women’s right to vote. Furthermore, they believed that women were not fit for public activities and intellectual work, so they strengthened their positions by adopting discriminatory scientific theories of the 19th century, related to the psychology of women. They had especially used the force of caricature to express their disapproval of the escalating arrival of feminist ideas near the end of the 19th century. The quantitative analysis, which was conducted on 489 newspaper publications, has statistically validated the principal rightist dichotomies in the development of male-female relationships.

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