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Original scientific paper

https://doi.org/10.31820/ejap.19.1.2

Women Philosophers in Communist Socialism: The Case of Croatian Women Philosophers in Years 1945–1989

Luka Boršić ; Institute of Philosophy, Zagreb
Ivana Skuhala Karasman orcid id orcid.org/0000-0001-7769-5259 ; Institute of Philosophy, Zagreb


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Abstract

The text presents an analysis of the situation with women philosophers in Croatia during the communist socialist period (1945 – 1989). The analysis is concentrated on two aspects: receiving doctorate degrees in philosophy and publications. Our analysis shows that during that period, women philosophers were proportionally approximately on the level of today’s women philosophers in western countries, including present-day Republic of Croatia by both criteria, i.e. the number of doctors of philosophy and the number of publications. Communist socialism was beneficial for women philosophers in two ways. First, administratively, it removed obstacles from women’s employment at universities and scientific institutes. Second, communism and socialism, being themselves philosophical and socio-philosophical doctrines, offered a set of new topics, investigations, and elaborations for further development. These factors made it possible that in Croatia, which at the time was economically and educationally much less developed than most of today’s western countries, proportionally the same number of women philosophers had an academic post as today in the western world (including today’s Croatia). We also analysed seven major philosophical journals published at the time and found that between 1945 and 1989, in percentage, 15,4% of the texts were authored by women. The proportion of women authorship is 0,2. This is an impressive number if we think that at that time the proportion of women authorships was higher than in today’s JSTOR, bearing in mind the differences in publication procedures then and now.

Keywords

women philosophers; communism; Croatia; Praxis

Hrčak ID:

295913

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/295913

Publication date:

17.3.2023.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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