Mileva Filipović – začetnica rodnog diskursa u Crnoj Gori
Mileva Filipović: the Initiator of Gender Discours in Montenegro

Author(s): Ervina Dabižinović
Subject(s): History, Gender Studies, Gender history
Published by: Етнографски институт САНУ
Keywords: Montenegro; Mileva Filipović; gender studies; translation
Summary/Abstract: The aim of this paper is to present the life and work of Mileva Filipović (1938) to the academic community in the region. The first female academician, Filipović founded the academic postgraduate programme Women and Law, at the Faculty of Law in Podgorica, which introduced the gender aspect into academic discourse and research in Montenegro. There are two creative periods in Mileva Filipović’s career: in the SFR Yugoslavia in the 20th century, when she built an academic career along with her social engagement; in the 21st century when she established an almost complete framework for questions of gender and gender studies. In addition to creating a gender studies curriculum, since 2000 she has undertaken intensive editorial work within the Femina imprint of the CID publishing house in Podgorica, where she has published her translation of the French author Pierre Bourdieu’s Masculine Domination (2001), and books by Alain Touraine (The Women’s World [Le Monde des Femmes], 2011) and Sylviane Agacinski (Woman Between Sex and Gender [Femmes entre sexe et genre], 2015), as well as her research results in The Social Power of Women in Montenegro (2003). By doing so, she is gradually forming her readers’ opinion on gender and gender studies in the 21st century in Montenegro and the region. Translating literature about women and for women is one of the important contributions to be made for readers in this region when talking about female academics. By researching the position and role of women in Montenegrin society, Mileva Filipović has opened up the topic of the exclusion of women from academia and from the networks of academic institutions. The originality and empirical validity of her research, the use of modern academic achievements, as well as the overall contribution to the development of academic thought in our country, remains unacknowledged by the highest academic institution – although nominated to join the Montenegrin Academy of Sciences and Arts, she was not elected. The message sent by this act is demotivating to the entire population of female academics in Montenegro.

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