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
Subject(s): Philosophy, Gender Studies, Sociology, Gender history, Marxism
Published by: Етнографски институт САНУ
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.

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