Julka Hlapec Đorđević: prilozi za feminističku biografiju
Julka Hlapec Đorđević: Contributions to Feminist Biography

Author(s): Jelena Milinković
Subject(s): History, Social Sciences, Gender Studies, Sociology, Gender history
Published by: Етнографски институт САНУ
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.

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