»JEDNAKOST-SOCIAL« - DEMOCRATIC WOMEN’S PAPER AND WORKERS MOVEMENT FOR FEMANCIPATION OF WOMEN

Abstract

During the period before First World War, women’s magazine »Jednakost« (Egality) was published in Belgrade as newspaper of women socialdemocrats, beginning in 1910 up to 1912 when it stopped due to Balkan Wars, and again in the first half of 1914 up to the beginning of First World War. The contets of this magazine were completely different to the current ones, and had totally contrary aims. In contrast to town papers »teaching« women to be »real women«, preparing tham and helping in performing conventional duties and roles within the home, family fashion etc., »Jednakost« had an aim to take readers out ot mythic world into a real one, to egalize them with the opposite sex, but at the same time imposing on them adequate duties. This work reviews the content of all issues, and classifies them according to the topic. It is thus clear that this magazine deserves attention not only within study of worker’s movement in Serbia at the beginning of XX century, but as well for ethnological studies of town population, as it enables an insite into the workers culture and its speciale place in social structure of urban settlements.