Pavlina Bogdan Bijelić - Traditional Female Identity on the Threshold of Modernity

Abstract

The writings of teacher and ethnographer Pavlina Bogdan Bijelić provides a rare opportunity to gain insight into women’s professional advancements in Dubrovnik at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century from the perspective of ego-documents, using the case study method. Bogdan Bijelić’s personal attitudes and professional choices were analyzed in the context of accelerated social, economic and political circumstances. The focus is on three aspects of Bogdan Bijelić’s public activity: professional positioning in the cultural milieu of Dalmatia and Croatia, the interaction between politics and women (including her), and Bogdan Bijelić’s participation in the discourse on the “woman question.”