Awards
- Winner of Book Prize 2022
Overview
Settled in the nineteenth century, a period of national liberation, this book presents facts about the contribution of women to Serbian culture. The story is, however, of an equal contemporary as well as of historical relevance: work of these authors remained hidden as they were neither adequately evaluated in school curriculums and textbooks, nor recognized by the general public. Does the absence from textbooks and literary histories imply their literature is not worth reading? Or, that the histories of literature are simply biased and inadequate? The answers to these questions are elaborated in this book. The author carefully investigates the strategies of historians and official politics of remembrance, arguing that the link between women's education and emancipation of the society has yet to be properly explained. The reader, whether a student, researcher, social scientist, or an intellectual interested in the history, social development, literature, or politics of Serbia, or the Balkan in general, will benefit from the numerous original sources consulted. This book is a reminder that understanding society means uncovering the hidden and giving voice to the ignored, providing evidence that contradicts dominant theories, rather than simply repeating what we are told.
Full Product Details
Author: Svetlana Tomic
Publisher: Lexington Books
Imprint: Lexington Books
Dimensions:
Width: 16.10cm
, Height: 2.40cm
, Length: 22.70cm
Weight: 0.635kg
ISBN: 9781793631985
ISBN 10: 1793631980
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 10 February 2022
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Reviews
In Serbian cultural reality, one may discover sporadic correspondences of forgotten or tacit sequences linked to women's contributions to the national history and culture, where every contribution to this effort, especially if it is available to foreign readers, is a feat worth admiration. This book is here to fill in the voids and to emancipate the readers through the life and creative achievements of these selected women to tell an exciting story about the struggle and enlightenment and freedom.--Gordana Stojakovic, independent researcher Scholar and editor Svetlana Tomic has compiled a book outlining the selective, biased, and deliberate ignorance that Serbian critics and cultural gatekeepers have imposed on the biographies and achievements of Serbian women--making clear that women who were admired in their time truly deserve our attention today. This book will interest feminists, scholars of women's history and writing, specialists in Slavic Studies, and general readers who will wonder why they haven't heard of many of these accomplished and important figures.--Sibelan Forrester, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore College This book by Svetlana Tomic is an extraordinary example of research that introduces unknown personalities, stories, and documented history both in Serbian and in international feminist academic populations. Hence, the term 'hidden' in the title is fully justified. But the author also discovers the impressive lives of women--their strength and achievements in difficult times and difficult places. The result is women's contribution to national culture, some daring avant-garde works, modernity, progressive thinking, and the official silence covering them ever since. The book also points to today's Serbian cultural problems, based on the same patriarchal patterns and the historical setback in the 1990s and on.--Svetlana Slapsak, Former Dean of Ljubljana Graduate School
[Tomic 's] work is welcome and long overdue.... Some 15 black-and-white figures, a 33-page bibliography (7 of primary works, 26 of secondary sources), a comprehensive index, detailed notes and references, and the numerous questions Tomic poses point to a wealth of possibilities for future research on this topic. Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty.-- Choice Reviews In Serbian cultural reality, one may discover sporadic correspondences of forgotten or tacit sequences linked to women's contributions to the national history and culture, where every contribution to this effort, especially if it is available to foreign readers, is a feat worth admiration. This book is here to fill in the voids and to emancipate the readers through the life and creative achievements of these selected women to tell an exciting story about the struggle and enlightenment and freedom.--Gordana Stojakovic, independent researcher Scholar and editor Svetlana Tomic has compiled a book outlining the selective, biased, and deliberate ignorance that Serbian critics and cultural gatekeepers have imposed on the biographies and achievements of Serbian women--making clear that women who were admired in their time truly deserve our attention today. This book will interest feminists, scholars of women's history and writing, specialists in Slavic Studies, and general readers who will wonder why they haven't heard of many of these accomplished and important figures.--Sibelan Forrester, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore College This book by Svetlana Tomic is an extraordinary example of research that introduces unknown personalities, stories, and documented history both in Serbian and in international feminist academic populations. Hence, the term 'hidden' in the title is fully justified. But the author also discovers the impressive lives of women--their strength and achievements in difficult times and difficult places. The result is women's contribution to national culture, some daring avant-garde works, modernity, progressive thinking, and the official silence covering them ever since. The book also points to today's Serbian cultural problems, based on the same patriarchal patterns and the historical setback in the 1990s and on.--Svetlana Slapsak, Former Dean of Ljubljana Graduate School
Scholar and editor Svetlana Tomic has compiled a book outlining the selective, biased, and deliberate ignorance that Serbian critics and cultural gatekeepers have imposed on the biographies and achievements of Serbian women--and making clear that women who were admired in their time truly deserve our attention today. This book will interest feminists, scholars of women's history and writing, specialists in Slavic Studies, and general readers who will wonder why they haven't heard of many of these accomplished and important figures.--Sibelan Forrester, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore College The Hidden History of New Women in Serbian Culture is another tenacious effort of cataloging women's contributions in the cultural history of Serbia. In Serbian cultural reality, one may discover sporadic correspondences of forgotten or tacit sequences linked to women's contributions to the national history and culture, where every contribution to this effort especially if it is available to foreign readers is a feat worth admiration. In the expectation of a fresh and accurate perspective of the historical line of cultural development of an entire nation where there will be no neglecting of women's contributions, the book of Prof. Svetlana Tomic is there to fill in the voids and to emancipate the readers who know nothing or as little as possible about the Serbian people through the life and creative achievements of these selected women to indicate and tell an exciting story about the struggle and enlightenment and freedom.--Gordana Stojakovic, independent researcher and publicist This book by Svetlana Tomic is an extraordinary example of research which introduces unknown personalities, stories and documented history both in Serbian and in international feminist academic population. Hence, the term hidden in the title is fully justified. But the passionate research also discovers impressive lives of women, their strength, and achievements in difficult times and difficult places, in a turmoil of forming the national culture and women's struggle to participate in it and to be critical toward new forms of denying women's rights and role in it. The result is often women's high contribution to the national culture, some daring avant-garde works, modernity, and progressive thinking, and the official silence covering them ever since. The book is not only giving them voice again, but also pointing to today's Serbian culture problems, based on the same patriarchal patterns and the historical setback in the 90' of the twentieth century and on. Witnessing the obvious waking of women's studies and the growth of women's self-consciousness which has been a strong reaction to these processes, Svetlana Tomic excels as a representative of new new women in Serbian culture.--Svetlana Slapsak, Former Dean of Ljubljana Graduate School
Author Information
Svetlana Tomić is associate professor at Alfa BK University.
