Professional paper

The Woman in the Military Frontier

Antea Tokić

Abstract

After the militarisation of the Military Frontier, the average frontiersman became more and more overburdened by the military service and duties to the state. As a result, women became the main producers and manpower in the household – but without all the rights men enjoyed. For women, taking over the traditional male duties resulted in a harsh life, deterioration of their health, and high mortality. This paper explores the roles the woman had in the society of the time: as a student, worker, fiancée, wife, widow, or as a member of the zadruga collective. Our findings of any of these are limited by the interests of the state and its contemporaries, which were of varying intensity.

Keywords

Military Frontier; women’s history; education; marriage; zadruga collective; widowhood; workforce

Hrčak ID:

279037

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/279037

Publication date:

31.12.2020.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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