From “spravljenice” to “zadrugarke”: Education of Orthodox Serbian women in Dubrovnik 1831-1914.
Over the centuries, young girls from the hinterland of Dubrovnik often went to Dubrovnik to serve in wealthy homes in order to provide for their basic living needs or sometimes even for their dowry. The position of this female population, which people of Dubrovnik called - spravljenice, čup...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Institute of Ethnography, SASA, Belgrade
2022-01-01
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Series: | Glasnik Etnografskog Instituta SANU |
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Online Access: | http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0350-0861/2022/0350-08612203023A.pdf |
Summary: | Over the centuries, young girls from the hinterland of Dubrovnik often went
to Dubrovnik to serve in wealthy homes in order to provide for their basic
living needs or sometimes even for their dowry. The position of this female
population, which people of Dubrovnik called - spravljenice, čupe or
godišnjice, was very unfavorable, although within literature they were
presented as activists who fought for their rights. After the legalization
of the Serbian Orthodox Church community in 1790, affluent Serbian families
moved to Dubrovnik. These families significantly participated in the
economic recovery of Dubrovnik during the next century. As a successful
economic community, the Orthodox Serbs tried to provide a school for their
children, which they finally succeeded in 1831 with a permanent teacher,
George Nikolajevic. Girls also attended the school founded by Nikolajevic.
This was the case until 1879, when in Dubrovnik was founded Božo Bošković
Women’s school. Young women from Dubrovnik were also educated within the
Association of Serbian Women from Dubrovnik, led by Teodora Bošković. Hence,
this article will present the process of education of Dubrovnik Orthodox
Serbian women in the period from 1831 to the second decade of the twentieth
century. |
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ISSN: | 0350-0861 2334-8259 |