ABSTRACT This article examines Slobodanka Peković’s pioneering research on women’s magazines in the context of the history of the Periodical Studies Department at the Institute for Literature and Art in Belgrade and of global transformations in periodical studies. The department nurtured a noncanonical approach to the study of Serbian literary periodicals and thus to Serbian literature by focusing not only on literary journals but also on marginal magazines, those created by ethnic minorities, immigrants, or intended for children. The article explains how Peković’s project proposal from the late 1970s for research on nineteenth- and twentieth-century magazines, entitled “The Presence and Contribution of Women Writers in the Modern Serbian Literature,” was rejected by the Scientific Council of the Institute for Literature and Art, but was effectively implemented within the department much later when better circumstances for feminist research arose. Even before that occurred, and without the opportunity for collective research organized by the institution, Peković conducted the work individually and developed her method of interpreting women’s contributions in historically influential literary and women’s magazines. The article stresses how studies of women’s and feminist periodicals can lead periodical scholars to the globally relevant methodological questions of their discipline.
ABSTRACT This article describes some of the key phenomena and tendencies that characterize periodical editorship as a vocation for women in the Kingdom of SCS/Yugoslavia (1918–1941). It explores biographies and editorial practices of the women editors of magazines that contributed to discourses of women’s emancipation in interwar Yugoslavia. By introducing the notion of emancipation as a vocation, which cuts across politically and intellectually heterogeneous positions, the article shows how women periodical editors shaped basic concepts through which scholars explain periodicals and Yugoslav societies. It supports these claims through brief case studies of three magazines: Ženski svijet / Jugoslavenska žena (Women’s World / Yugoslav Woman; Zagreb, 1917–1920), Ženski pokret (Women’s Movement; Belgrade, 1920–1938), and Žena danas (Woman Today; Belgrade, 1936–1940), as well as some of their editors: Zofka Kveder (Demetrović), Katarina Bogdanović, Paulina Lebl (Albala), Mileva Milojević, and Mitra Mitrović. Analyzing the common features of women’s editorial work provides us with new insights into their (separate) struggles for changes in the position and perception of women in interwar Yugoslavia.
ABSTRACT This article examines how expertise gained from researching the strategies of women’s movements, alongside those of the feminist press, may impact the digital preservation and actualization of periodical heritage. The concept of periodical musealization is exemplified by the almanac Srpkinja, published in 1913 by feminist activists within Serbian communities in Austro-Hungary. Feminist musealization emerged as a strategy of creative appropriation of the periodical space, indicating that periodicals played a crucial role in fostering strategic sociocultural shifts within women’s movements and contributed to addressing gender-based epistemic injustice. This article explores the possibilities for integrating these strategies into the contemporary digitization of women’s magazines as platforms for virtual women’s museums.
