ROD, ZNANJE I MOĆ - ISTORIJA, NASLEĐE I ZNAČAJ NAUČNICA U SRBIJI
GENDER, KNOWLEDGE
AND POWER
HISTORY, HERITAGE AND SIGNIFICANCE OF WOMEN - SCHOLARS AND SCIENTISTS IN SERBIA
Author(s): Mladena Prelić, Lada Stevanović, Miroslava Lukić Krstanović
Subject(s): Anthropology, Social Sciences, Gender Studies, Sociology, Gender history
Published by: Етнографски институт САНУ
Keywords: Serbia; gender equality; women scientists; academic visibility; patriarchal structures;
Summary/Abstract: Valuing and promoting the work and importance of female scientists in Serbia is one of the important aspects of gender equality, as well as overall social and cultural prosperity in the fields of education and science. The status, contribution and visibility of female scientists in Serbia stems from long-term historical circumstances that were based on traditional and patriarchal principles of the role and position of women in society. Bearing in mind the historical context, as well as the social, economic and political factors that determined the development of higher education and the creation of scientific personnel, women went through different stages of patriarchy, ideological-political paradigms of (in)equality, but also the struggle for emancipation and gender equality, which was not linear even when it achieved results. Because, in the dominant patriarchal order, in the field of women's equality, not a single victory is final or achieved forever.
- Print-ISBN-13: 978-86-7587-113-2
- Page Count: 240
- Publication Year: 2022
- Language: English, Serbian
Julka Hlapec Đorđević: prilozi za feminističku biografiju
Julka Hlapec Đorđević: prilozi za feminističku biografiju
(Julka Hlapec Đorđević: Contributions to Feminist Biography)
- Author(s):Jelena Milinković
- Language:Serbian
- Subject(s):History, Social Sciences, Gender Studies, Sociology, Gender history
- Page Range:15-33
- No. of Pages:19
- Keywords:Julka Hlapec Đorđević; The Fate of a Woman. The Crisis of Sexual Ethics; (Yugoslav) feminism; feminist sociology; history of science
- Summary/Abstract:The aim of this paper is to present the professional biography of Julka Hlapec Đorđević (1882–1969), philosopher, historian, sociologist, writer, and above all feminist, whose foundational ideas (upon which her beliefs were based) were for the first time presented systematically in the study The Fate of a Woman. The Crisis of Sexual Ethics in 1930. Born in Stari Bečej, Đorđević spent most of her life abroad. She was educated in Ljubljana, where she graduated from high school in classical languages, and then in Vienna, where she received her doctorate in philosophy at the age of only 24, thus becoming one of the first women from what is today’s Serbia, to obtain that degree. Upon marrying army officer Zdenjko Hlapec, she moved with him to today’s Czech Republic, where she spent most of her life and where she died. The period of Đorđević’s greatest professional activity was the 1920s and 1930s. She was equally successful in academia and literature, writing academic studies (history, sociology, and literature), opinion pieces, literary criticism, essays, novels, and travelogues. She collaborated with numerous magazines during the interwar period (Letopis Matice srpske / Th e Matica Srpska Chronicle; Ženski pokret / The Women’s Movement Magazinе; Život i rad / The Life and Work Magazine), and published in both Serbian and Czech. In addition to numerous articles, she published eight books. This paper will present the most important points in the academic career of Julka Hlapec Đorđević, with special emphasis on her feminist engagement and contribution to feminist sociology.
Humanizovanje dvojstva ljubavi: Anica Savić Rebac o Euripidovom Erosu
Humanizovanje dvojstva ljubavi: Anica Savić Rebac o Euripidovom Erosu
(Humanizing the duality of love: Anica Savić Rebac on Euripides' Eros)
- Author(s):Đurđina Šijaković Maidanik
- Language:Serbian
- Subject(s):Philosophy, Gender Studies, Ancient Philosphy
- Page Range:35-51
- No. of Pages:17
- Keywords:Anica Savić Rebac (1892–1953); Euripides; Erôs; history of ideas; classical studies
- Summary/Abstract:Euripides, the youngest of the three great Greek tragedians, has a special place in Anica Savić Rebac’s 1932 doctoral thesis, Pre-Platonic Erotology. Indeed, the theme of the thesis marked her life, work, and even death, and an entire chapter of the thesis, “Passion and Wisdom,” is dedicated to him. According to Rebac, Euripides as a “poet of the soul” and a “poet of antinomies” completely reduces the old duality of suprapersonal and personal Eros to the realm of the soul and transforms it into a contrast between spiritual / wise / moderate and passionate / mindless / excessive love. The author positions Euripides’ thought as the predecessor of Plato’s, i.e. as a necessary step towards the pinnacle of erotology. This paper presents in more detail the above mentioned segments of the discussion on Euripides’ Eros, with particular attention paid to Rebac’s claim that Euripides focuses on noble, loft y love, in order to shed light on the significance and characteristics of her insights, given the criticism of Euripides and the contemporary study of Eros in tragedy. Based on the insights in this chapter, the author’s breadth in understanding literature, her inherent perspective on the history of ideas, especially important focuses of analysis and points, will be highlighted, and areas where future academic efforts could continue will be indicated. The author’s focus on the character Laodamia from Euripides’ lost play Protesilaus will be a source of particular inspiration.
Rad na kanonizaciji ženskog autorstva u međuratnoj Jugoslaviji
Rad na kanonizaciji ženskog autorstva u međuratnoj Jugoslaviji
(Canonisation of Women’s Authorship in Interwar Yugoslavia)
- Author(s):Jelena Petrović
- Language:Serbian
- Subject(s):History, Gender Studies, Sociology, Gender history
- Page Range:53-82
- No. of Pages:30
- Keywords:women’s authorship; literary canon; feminism; emancipatory politics of knowledge production; interwar Yugoslavia
- Summary/Abstract:This contribution to the collection on the heritage and importance of women in academia indicates extensive, systematic, and engaged individual and collective, critical, and theoretical work in the field of the organization, affirmation, and promotion of women’s literary creations and the determination of its foundational starting points and concepts based on selected examples of the canonisation of women’s authorship in interwar Yugoslavia. On the one hand, it starts from the ideological and programmatic absence of women in the so-called universal literary canon, the marginal positioning of women’s authorship, and the evaluation / labelling of women’s literary production, and in this regard, the special emphasis on the prefix feminine by the authoritative representatives and creators of the official literary canon (who first introduced and defined the term female literature as incomplete and less valuable, and then, paradoxically, in the universal understanding of literature, as impossible). On the other hand, the analysis of interdisciplinary research and academic texts that bear witness to that time rediscovers the scope and significance of women’s creativity, as well as selected feminist texts that determined the importance of women’s authorship and the necessity of its presence in literary studies. Selected examples in this paper indicate, above all, the presence of women’s authorship in public discourses, attempts of literary-historical canonisation, and feminist interpretations and literary criticism of female literature during this period of time. Thanks to numerous women’s magazines and organised events, newly established women’s publishing houses, independent publications and the emancipation of a small number of literature lovers who opened the public literary space for the second sex, women’s literary creations has flourished through the persistent feminist struggle both for literary and for any other equality.
Rodna struktura Matematičkog instituta SAN od 1946. do 1961. godine
Rodna struktura Matematičkog instituta SAN od 1946. do 1961. godine
(Gender Structure of the Mathematical Institute SAS from 1946. to 1961.)
- Author(s):Marija Šegan-Radonjić, Vesna Todorčević
- Language:Serbian
- Subject(s):History, Social Sciences, Gender Studies, Sociology, Gender history
- Page Range:83-94
- No. of Pages:12
- Keywords:Mathematical Institute; Mileva Prvanović; gender equality in science; history of science
- Summary/Abstract:As 2021 saw the Mathematical Institute SASA mark not only 75 years since its foundation, but also the adoption of its first plan for achieving and improving gender equality, this paper investigates the issue of gender equality based on the analysis of the content of archival materials, primarily those found in the Institute’s archives, relating to the structure and existence of possible gender inequalities in the first years of the Institute’s operation. In chronological terms, the paper covers the period from 1946, when the Institute was established within the Serbian Academy of Sciences (SAS), to 1961, when it was separated from SAS and became completely independent. The paper is conceived as the first phase of broader research on the historical context on which the current gender structure and relations at the Mathematical Institute are based, which would provide useful data and conclusions for achieving and improving the current Gender Equality Plan.
Žene i žensko pitanje u radu Korčulanske škole i časopisa Praxis
Žene i žensko pitanje u radu Korčulanske škole i časopisa Praxis
(Women and the Women’s Issue in the Work of the Korcula School and the Journal Praxis)
- Author(s):Nada Sekulić
- Language:Serbian
- Subject(s):Philosophy, Gender Studies, Sociology, Gender history, Marxism
- Page Range:95-120
- No. of Pages:26
- Keywords:Korcula school; Praxis; women’s issues; Marxism; feminism
- Summary/Abstract:The paper deals with the invisibility of the women’s issue, and the very low participation of women in the work of the Korcula School and the related magazine Praxis, in the period from 1963 to 1974. We remember the Korcula School as a momentum of revolutionary and at the same time “Dionysian” Marxism aimed at “critique of everything that exists”, in which the relationship between progress and culture, the history and perspectives of socialism, the importance of revolution, the relationship between creativity and alienation, the relationship between freedom and equality, idea of burgoois society were questioned. And yet, although it brought together the most important Yugoslav and European left -wing intellectuals of the time, within the interpretation of the idea of praxis as the foundation of the humanization of socialist and modern society, the Korcula school overlooked the women’s issue as an important emancipatory, and even more theoretical Marxist topic. In socialist Yugoslavia, the women’s issue was discussed in some completely different places, which were under far more pronounced party control and did not acquire a dissident sign until 1978. Analyzing the basic network of concepts and theoretical re-examinations opened during the Korcula School, as well as women’s participation in its work, the author reconstructs the peculiarities of free but empty space for women – reasons for the lack of serious theoretical and practical foundation of the idea of liberating women in Korcula polemical and unique debates on the new humanistic and revolutionary Marxism. Paying special attention to the approach of Zagorka Golubović, as one of the few women participants in the Korčula School, this paper will show how Zagorka Golubović opened the door to gender issues in the domestic academic public.
Professor Đurđica Petrović – a life worth living
Professor Đurđica Petrović – a life worth living
(Professor Đurđica Petrović – a life worth living)
- Author(s):Mirjana Prošić-Dvornić
- Language:English
- Subject(s):Anthropology, Social Sciences
- Page Range:121-147
- No. of Pages:27
- Keywords:Ethnological/anthropological historian; museum curator and university professor; with broad interests and high professional and scientific standards; a pioneer; innovator; leader
- Summary/Abstract:Đurđica Petrović, Ph.D. (1927–2003), professor at the Department of Ethnology and Anthropology (1971–1992), Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade, was the first Serbian and Yugoslavian anthropological historian researching everyday life of mostly common people in Dubrovnik, its hinterland, and the Balkans in general, from the late Middle Agес until contemporary times. She based her research on all available reliable sources but mostly on archival written documents from Dubrovnik, Venice, Zadar, and Kotor, as well as on visual records representing various artifacts, from mediaeval frescos to graphic prints, paintings, and photography. Both of these sources, at the time she started using them, were novel in ethnological research in Serbia. Her entire professional career reveals her efforts to approach the study of culture, irrelevant of any specific topic, be it a material object, ethnic or social groups, religious customs and rituals, folklore, relations between rural and urban cultures, or between tradition and contemporary contents and transitions between them, inside dynamics and different outside influences, always contextualized, in historic and comparative perspective and in precisely defined time period, and never in “ethnographic present”. Her two places of employment, the Military Museum of the Yugoslav Peoples’ Army (1952–1971) and the Faculty of Philosophy (1971–1992) determined her area of research. In the former she was in charge of historic fi re- and sidearms collections, and in the latter the curriculum directed her towards Ethnology of Croatia and, for a much longer period of time, to material culture. Irrelevant of the topic, each one was researched and presented in innovative, scientifically rigorous ways, which imbued them with reputability. This article has two parts. The first one is a summary of Đurđica Petrović’s research topics and professional achievements. The second part is about her as a private person, about some of the events and experiences that made her into who she was, about her feelings and aspirations based on my memories created during our long (1971–2003) professional and personal relationships. She was a great person to have first as a mentor and then as a colleague and a friend
Benevolentni i neprijateljski seksizam kao prepreka vidljivosti naučnih doprinosa akademskih radnica u Srbiji
Benevolentni i neprijateljski seksizam kao prepreka vidljivosti naučnih doprinosa akademskih radnica u Srbiji
(Benevolent and Hostile Sexism as an Obstacle to the Visibility of the Academic Contributions of Female Academic Workers in Serbia)
- Author(s):Jelena Ćeriman
- Language:Serbian
- Subject(s):History, Gender Studies, Sociology, Gender history
- Page Range:149-168
- No. of Pages:20
- Keywords:ambivalent sexism; benevolent sexism; hostile sexism; patriarchal academic culture; women academic workers; Serbia
- Summary/Abstract:This paper focuses on sexist attitudes and behaviours in the academic community that represent barriers to the development of women’s academic careers and affect the visibility of their academic contributions in the long run. From the perspective of both male and female interviewees, the observed sexism directed towards female academic workers hinders their career advancement and undermines the possibility of both women’s solidarity and radical systemic change. Sexism wrapped up in seemingly meritocratic principles supports patriarchal academic culture by making the academic contributions of female academic workers less visible in the long run. The analysis is based on empirical insights from exploratory research conducted in 2017 on a sample of women academic workers engaged at state universities in Niš, Novi Pazar, Novi Sad, Kragujevac and Belgrade, and focuses on the question: what factors lead to academic culture expressing benevolent and / or hostile sexism towards female academic workers, which indirectly affects the invisibility of the academic contributions of academic workers in Serbia. This research was supported by the PERFORM (Performing and Responsive Social Sciences) project of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) conducted by Helvetas and the University of Fribourg. The views expressed in this study are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views and opinions of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation or Helvetas and the University of Fribourg.
Intersekcionalna perspektiva u akademskom prostoru: pripadnice nacionalnih manjina u Srbiji
Intersekcionalna perspektiva u akademskom prostoru: pripadnice nacionalnih manjina u Srbiji
(An Intersectional Perspective in Academic Space: Women from National Minorities in Serbia)
- Author(s):Karolina Lendák-Kabók
- Language:Serbian
- Subject(s):Gender Studies, Sociology, Gender history, Ethnic Minorities Studies
- Page Range:169-188
- No. of Pages:20
- Keywords:women; national minorities; academic community; career building; intersectionality; Serbia
- Summary/Abstract:The aim of this paper is to present and analyse the position of female members of the Hungarian, Slovak, and Romanian national minorities in the academic community in Serbia. The analysis is based on sixteen semi-structured interviews with female teaching staff , who were employed at the Universities of Novi Sad or Belgrade at the time of the interview. Intersectionality as a theoretical framework, but also as a method, was used in the analysis of the interview, together with the narrative analysis. The intersectional analysis indicated that female members of national minorities struggle with invisible prejudices, and that they attribute the difficulties they have to overcome during career building to their national affiliation, while gender inequalities are not noticed or given much importance. This paper shows how, in a specific social environment – i.e., in the system of higher education in Serbia – they develop the representations and identity constructions of a specific category of women who try to solve their difficulties during career building on an individual level, without structural or institutional support. For that reason, their career path requires more work and proof of achievements, in order to compensate for their otherness and lack of sense of belonging.
Naučnice iz Srbije u svetu: kroz dijalog i refleksiju
Naučnice iz Srbije u svetu: kroz dijalog i refleksiju
(Women Scholars from Serbia Abroad: Through Dialogue and Refl ection)
- Author(s):Svenka Savić, Maja Korać
- Language:Serbian
- Subject(s):Gender Studies, Sociology, Gender history
- Page Range:189-215
- No. of Pages:27
- Keywords:the context of leaving; fi elds of study and personal experience; diasporic and professional networks; women’s friendships; the question of identity; the question of language
- Summary/Abstract:Serbia does not have reliable data on the number of women scholars who are currently living and working abroad. Data on those left during the 1960s or 1990s, are also not available, making it impossible to make an informed assessment of the continuity of this process that started during the last century and continues well into the 21st. Recent reports indicate that an effort has been made in the past few years, to collect data about their number and institutional affiliations. However, such data lack information about important aspects of their professional life and work, in academic institutions abroad. This type of information is crucial for the understanding of the academic environments and scholarly work they are engaged in. Awareness of and knowledge about a range of aspects of their lived experiences is central to establishing fruitful exchanges and collaborations between the women scholars living and working abroad, and the academic and research institutions in Serbia. One of the ways to fill this gap and to learn more about this multilayered aspect of their experience is to focus on life stories of the women scholars who left the country during the 1990s and continued to do so, since the start of the 21st century. In this article, based on a life story, we dip into a multi-layered meaning of this kind of life experience, through dialog and reflection, in order to emphasise the importance of the context: societal, political, scholarly, and institutional. Looking into their scholarly and life experience through these different contextual lenses is sine qua non for their full grasp and understanding.
O vebinaru - Istraživanje istorije i doprinosa naučnica u Srbiji: metode i pristupi
O vebinaru - Istraživanje istorije i doprinosa naučnica u Srbiji: metode i pristupi
(About the webinar - Researching the history and contribution of women scientists in Serbia: methods and approaches)
- Author(s):Miroslava Lukić Krstanović
- Language:Serbian
- Subject(s):Gender Studies, Sociology
- Page Range:219-229
- No. of Pages:11
IN MEMORIAM Prof. dr Ljubinka Trgovčević Mitrović (1948–2022)
IN MEMORIAM Prof. dr Ljubinka Trgovčević Mitrović (1948–2022)
(IN MEMORIAM Prof. dr Ljubinka Trgovčević Mitrović (1948–2022))
- Author(s):Ana Stolić
- Language:Serbian
- Subject(s):History, Social Sciences
- Page Range:231-232
- No. of Pages:2
BIOGRAFIJE AUTORKI I UREDNICA
BIOGRAFIJE AUTORKI I UREDNICA
(BIOGRAPHIES OF AUTHORS AND EDITORS)
- Author(s):Author Not Specified
- Language:Serbian
- Subject(s):History, Social Sciences
- Page Range:233-239
- No. of Pages:7
