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Rodna perspektiva u bosanskohercegovačkim dramama 20. vijeka
The Gender Point of View in 20th Century B-H Plays

Author(s): Amela Šehović
Subject(s): Gender Studies
Published by: Univerzitet u Sarajevu
Keywords: gender; B-H plays; language; sex; noun movement; female stereotypes; proverbs

Summary/Abstract: The linguistic, social and gender issues have been recently occupying the attention of scholars from various fields, however today are frequent conversations regarding gender studies in this context. Although, regardless of attitude one has toward these phenomena and of which point of view it is illuminated in their analyses, the inter-disciplinary approach seems inevitable. This paper uses also the aforesaid approach, and these issues are addressed from (socio) linguistic and cultural-sociological aspects. The analysis of this kind sets forth the basic features of a gender perspective in the 20th century B-H plays, which generally stand for easy-care pool for exploring these issues, since they, similarly to proverbs, reveal many gender stereotypes and ideologies of all sorts. At the same time, the attention is drawn to the fact that gender perspective studying surpasses the literary and artistic and accordingly recommendations are being made for exploring these issues in the media, legal documents, textbooks for different levels of education, etc., which represent potential landmarks for a possible social transformative process toward its democratization.

  • Issue Year: LII/2011
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 55-82
  • Page Count: 28
  • Language: Bosnian