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

In Dalmatia, at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, the provincial female teacher's school (located in Dubrovnik) was the highest level of education that a girl could receive. The teachers therefore formed the female intellectual elite of the Dalmatian bourgeoisie. Unlike women who fought more progressive battles for women's education, voting rights and emancipation in the larger urban centres of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, Dubrovnik women made their first steps into the public sphere from the comfort zone of traditional women's identity. The life and work of teacher Pavlina Bijelić Bogdan is an example of such an engagement. The status of a well-to-do citizen first secured her an education ; then respectable acquaintances, intellectual debates and correspondence (for example with Baltazar Bogišić). In addition to teaching, she was engaged in the collection of ethnographic material, folk (Konavle) embroidery, which enabled her to act publicly, publish works and participate in exhibitions ; all in a politically neutral professional field “appropriate” for a woman. She stopped working after marriage. By marrying Vlaho Bogdan, she acquired a noble title and, after his death, probably his pension, and devoted herself to humanitarian work for the rest of her life. She founded two women's associations of a religious (Catholic) and humanitarian character, leaving the burning political, national and social issues, especially the Women's Question, to the younger generations of Dubrovnik women gathered around the People's Women's Cooperative between the two world wars.

Pavlina Bogdan Bijelić, female teacher, ethnography, women in politics, “woman question”, correspondence, Cavtat, Dubrovnik.

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