УЛОГА ЖЕНСКИХ СТРАНИХ МИСИЈА У СРБИЈИ ТОКОМ ВЕЛИКОГ РАТА: ТРАНСФЕР МЕДИКАЛИЗОВАНИХ ТЕХНОЛОГИЈА И РАЂАЊЕ БИОПОЛИТИКЕ
THE ROLE OF THE WOMEN’S FOREIGN MISSIONS IN SERBIA DURING THE GREAT WAR: TRANSFER OF MEDICALIZED TECHNOLOGIES AND THE BIRTH OF BIOPOLITICS

Summary/Abstract: This paper is theoretically and methodologically limited to one narrow aspect of the First World War – to the role of the women’s foreign missions. The case of Serbia in this context is of particular importance not just in terms of the weight, dramatic and tragic consequences of the Great war, but because the international engagement of women in foreign missions served as a latent social mechanism – the transfer of medicalized political and social technologies and practices that at the time did not existed. In this paper we analyze the conditions and causes of the changes in social roles of women that were related to their activism, professionalism, mobilization and engagement in medical and humanitarian missions during the Great War. This historical event was also the turning point in regard to the social participation of women as well as the milestone for the changes in the culture of gender relations.

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