Feminističke studije periodike u Institutu za književnost i umetnost
Feminist Periodical Studies at the Institute for Literature and Arts

Author(s): Stanislava Barać
Subject(s): History, Gender Studies, Cultural history, Sociology, Gender history
Published by: Етнографски институт САНУ
Keywords: feminist studies of periodicals; Slobodanka Peković; Institute for Literature and Arts.
Summary/Abstract: The paper aims to show how female scholars employed by the Institute for Literature and Arts have, over several generations, shaped and consolidated the humanities (sub)discipline of feminist periodical studies. Slobodanka Peković had a pioneering but also medial role in the process, so her work (from the mid-1970s to the present) on researching women’s literary heritage and literary magazines is highlighted. The paper recognises Slobodanka Peković’s research as one of the connection points of the processes which began in the wake of the foundation (1969) and development of an institute project specialising in the study of (the history of Serbian literary) periodicals, and the gradual stabilisation of feminist approaches in the Yugoslav and Serbian academic humanities (and thus at the Institute and at the Faculty of Philology at Belgrade University). The rejection by the Academic Council of the Institute of her project proposal Women and Literature – The Presence and Contribution of Women Writers in Recent Serbian Literature (submitted in the late 70s), based on 19th century periodicals, therefore has illustrative significance. T e paper will briefly introduce further research into women’s and feminist periodicals, unhindered since the beginning of the 21st century, at the Institute and at the Faculty of Philology, and the merging of these two academic streams around 2010, as well as current activities and results in this field. The role of the policies of the Ministry of Science in Serbia from 2000 onwards, as well as specific staffing at the Institute for Literature and Arts, in conditioning and facilitating this developmental outcome of feminist periodical studies – from individual efforts to organised team ventures – will thereby be explained.

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