National Reproduction with (Un)Disciplined Bodies: Women Moving to the Politically Possible in pre-Yugoslavian Societies (Examples from Serbia, Bosnia and Croatia)

Ivana Hadjievska

doi:10.25038/am.v0i18.298

Authors

Ivana Hadjievska

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25038/am.v0i18.298

Keywords:

nation, reproduction, women, Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia, public, private

Abstract

This paper is about national reproduction relations and the ways they affected women’s bodies in context of women’s accessibility to public and political space in the late 19th century Serbia, Bosnia and Croatia. The end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century embark events and processes of national emancipation for the Balkan peoples. The examples taken here are set in the different states of ‘nationalizing’ and ‘nation-building,’ as well as in different iterations of modernity, with the intention to trace possible patterns and typologies in the relation of national reproduction, in its ethno-cultural dimension, and the opening of new political spaces for women from these different national entities and territories through education, autonomous organizing, charity and anonymous domestic labor. I find the interest and vindication of my intention in the historical events after 1918, when the mentioned territories and nationalities became part of new state – the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes/Kingdom of Yugoslavia. With that, the state strategies of national reproduction towards women gained new qualities with centralization and ideological unification of the ideal ‘Yugoslav’ woman as its final edifice.

Article received: December 15, 2018; Article accepted: January 23, 2019; Published online: April 15, 2019; Original scholarly paper

How to cite this article: Hadjievska, Ivana: "National Reproduction with (Un)Disciplined Bodies: Women Moving to the Politically Possible in pre-Yugoslavian Societies (Examples from Serbia, Bosnia and Croatia)." AM Journal of Art and Media Studies 18 (2019): 17–31. doi: 10.25038/am.v0i18.298

Author Biography

Ivana Hadjievska

Faculty of Philosophy, Institute of History, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje
Macedonia, the former Yugoslav Republic of

Ivana Hadjievska (1995) is completing her MA studies on the Institute of History (Faculty of Philosophy, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje), researching workers’ everyday life in early 20th century Macedonia with cliometric approach. She has graduated history on the Institute of History in Skopje, finishing the studies with highest grades. Her interest ranges trough gender history, social history, post-colonial theories, biopolitics and the modern state. She has worked on civil projects to connect research with inclusive education and local activism. In addition, she has participated and presented her work on numerous conferences and workshops. She is author on pirej.mk – alternative medium for culture and humanities

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25038/am.v0i18.298 DOI: https://doi.org/10.25038/am.v0i18.298