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Women’s Authorship in Interwar Yugoslavia

The Politics of Love and Struggle

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Authors:
  1. Jelena Petrović

    1. Belgrade, Serbia

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  • Provides the first book-length study of interwar women’s authorship in Yugoslavia
  • Reveals the politics and the practices of everyday life in the period between the world wars
  • Offers a parallel reading of interwar Yugoslavia and modern (post)Yugoslav space by exposing the dominant politics and practice of patriarchal ideology

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction: (Post)Yugoslav Feminisms and Interwar Women’s Authorship

    • Jelena Petrović
    Pages 1-26

  3. The Woman Question and the First Wave of Feminism in Yugoslavia

    • Jelena Petrović
    Pages 27-53

  4. Yugoslav Women and Their Commonplaces

    • Jelena Petrović
    Pages 55-91

  5. Women’s Authorship in Interwar Yugoslavia: Palimpsest Effect

    • Jelena Petrović
    Pages 93-154

  6. Sex and Gender on the Edge

    • Jelena Petrović
    Pages 155-199

  7. Women’s Writing

    • Jelena Petrović
    Pages 201-254

  8. The Politics of Love and Struggle

    • Jelena Petrović
    Pages 255-298

  9. Conclusion: Epistemology of Transformation or Arachne’s Web of Resistance

    • Jelena Petrović
    Pages 299-313

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 315-327
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About this book

This book highlights the extent to which women were positioned as historical subjects in the process of constructing political, social, and cultural history in Yugoslavia, while simultaneously facing the politics of institutional exclusion and academic ignorance of progressive ideas and emancipatory struggles. To this effect, the book interprets a series of works written in interwar Yugoslavia by women or about women’s position in public space. The research corpus is varied, including LGBT literature, autobiographies, travelogues, literary correspondence, political writings, parody, bibliographies and dictionaries, etc. The book argues that women have been programmatically made absent from the so-called universal canon of (post)Yugoslav literature, or else negatively valorised or labeled, while at the same time women’s writing in interwar Yugoslavia reflected, articulated and mapped significant social, political and cultural issues. The book proposes a re-reading of the once censored and forgotten texts to counter the politics of exclusion that operates even today in the post-Yugoslav space. This re-reading is carried out in the light of contemporary feminist theories and aims to reveal and emphasise the emancipatory importance of women’s authorship. In this way, Jelena Petrović provides a fresh perspective on the topical issue of the still contested (post)Yugoslav space. 

Authors and Affiliations

  • Belgrade, Serbia

    Jelena Petrović

About the author

Jelena Petrović is a feminist scholar, art theoretician and curator. She has co-authored many texts, events and projects related to the (mis)interpretative models of the (post)Yugoslav history, literature, art-theory and feminism. She was appointed as an Endowed Professor
for Central and South Eastern European Art Histories at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna (2015-2017). Recent publications include ‘What Does the Freedom Stand for Today?’ in Border Thinking, edited by Marina Gržinić (2018).

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Women’s Authorship in Interwar Yugoslavia

  • Book Subtitle: The Politics of Love and Struggle

  • Authors: Jelena Petrović

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00142-1

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: History, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-00141-4Published: 15 October 2018

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-13085-5Published: 10 December 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-00142-1Published: 01 October 2018

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 327

  • Topics: History of Germany and Central Europe, Cultural History, Women's Studies, History of Modern Europe, Literary History

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