Review article

https://doi.org/10.17234/RadoviZHP.55.7

Julka Chlapec Ðorđević’s New Woman

Jelena Milinković orcid.org/0000-0002-1792-7799
Žarka Svirčev

Abstract

The paper presents the concept of the new woman by Julka Chlapec Đorđević (1882–1969) as an intersectional figure between the different lines of the writer’s feminist thought and social engagement. We dedicate the first part of the paper to the theoretical basis of this concept. In the second part, we analyze the modes of its formation in Chlapec Đorđević’s writing. Our research focused on her discursive formulation of the new ethics and politics of sexuality and the related private/public micro-institutions of patriarchy as basic frameworks within which she articulated the concept of the new woman. Chlapec Đorđević comprehensively realized the concept of the new woman in the novel Jedno dopisivanje [A Correspondence] (1932). We depict its heroine as a paradigm of the writer’s theoretical thought on the emancipated woman in correlation with many modern phenomena.

Keywords

new woman, marriage, politics of sexuality, love narratives, modernism, Julka Chlapec Djordjević, feminist literature, epistolary novels

Hrčak ID:

316263

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/316263

Publication date:

20.12.2023.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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