Ksenija Atanasijević - autoportret u portretima
Ksenija Atanasijević – Self-Portrait in Portraits

Author(s): Ivana Bašić
Subject(s): History, Philosophy, Gender history
Published by: Етнографски институт САНУ
Keywords: Ksenija Atanasijević; portraits of women; women’s creativity; feminist tradition
Summary/Abstract: Ksenija Atanasijević (1894–1981), the first female Doctor of Philosophy and Assistant Professor in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, an eminent philosopher of her time, was contemporaneously a highly socially engaged thinker, especially in the fields of pacifism, anti-fascism, anti-Semitism and feminism. In addition to numerous discussions on feminism, Atanasijević authored texts on significant female historical figures – from philosophers and writers to rulers and saints. The focus of the paper is on how Atanasijević, writing about the poets and philosophers of ancient Greece, but also about Saint Teresa of Ávila or George Sand, wrote her own understanding of the importance of women’s scholarly and artistic creativity and the emancipation of women. At the same time – through her choice of different women’s creative individualities, and by the inspired interpretation of their works, characters and existences – Atanasijević painted her own intellectual and emotional portrait.

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