{"id":10815,"date":"2021-06-15T12:19:04","date_gmt":"2021-06-15T10:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/visitdistrikt.rs\/?p=10815"},"modified":"2021-06-15T12:19:04","modified_gmt":"2021-06-15T10:19:04","slug":"first-women-of-novi-sad-breaking-prejudice-and-securing-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/visitdistrikt.rs\/en\/2021\/06\/15\/first-women-of-novi-sad-breaking-prejudice-and-securing-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"First Women of Novi Sad: Breaking Prejudice and Securing Freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"

Throughout history, women of Novi Sad have bravely come to grips with prejudice and inequality numerous times, doing what was unimaginable at the time.<\/strong>
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Only a few centuries ago, women were almost invisible in society. In a patriarchal environment such as ours, they didn\u2019t have the right to express themselves, the right to vote, educate or work. The only thing left for them was to become a mother or a housewife. However, there are exceptions to every rule, as it often happens in life. These exceptions paved the way for other women to fight for their rights and get involved in all spheres of social life. The improvement is primarily seen in women\u2019s transition from family to public life.<\/span><\/p>\n

Judita Horovic, the First Independent Female Entrepreneur<\/span><\/h2>\n

Judita Horovic<\/strong> was a woman who set a precedent in the business world of Novi Sad in the 19th century. There is very little information about Judita\u2019s life and not one photo of her. What we know is that she was born in Novi Sad in 1787, to a respectable Jewish merchant family. Judita received education in a time when women weren\u2019t allowed to go to school. She was also familiar with her family\u2019s merchant jobs and was excellent in leading the inherited family shop \u2018Horovic\u2019 that sold food products. Judita made a name for herself and was the first woman entrepreneur in a man\u2019s world.<\/span><\/p>\n

Aware of the general position of women in society, she fought for their independence and equality. In March 1848, Judita submitted a request to the Magistrate with a group of like-minded women. The request had to do with forming the first female organisation in the city. Her idea was for the organisation to take care of poor and sick people, primarily people belonging to the Jewish community. The Magistrate declined the request. Nevertheless, Judita\u2019s vision came true, but only after her death. Jewish women from Novi Sad formed the Novi Sad Israelite Charitable Women\u2019s Society<\/em> in 1976. The society worked continuously until the Second World War.<\/span><\/p>\n

Judita Horovic lived in today\u2019s Pavla Papa Street. She died in 1857 and was buried in the Jewish Cemetery in Novi Sad. Judita Horovic was a woman on top of her task at a time when being a woman in the social and business life of Novi Sad was very challenging.<\/span><\/p>\n

Marta Jorgovi\u0107 (Ne\u0161kova), the First Serbian Female High School Graduate<\/span><\/h2>\n

Marta Jorgovi\u0107 (Ne\u0161kova)<\/strong> was the first Serbian woman to enrol and graduate from a high school. She graduated from the first Serbian Grammar School in Novi Sad in 1757. Even decades later, not a single woman enrolled in a high school. The right to education was a male privilege.<\/span><\/p>\n

Again, there isn\u2019t much information about her life. She was born to a rich and respected family around 1742. She applied for high school at her father Ne\u0161ko Petrovi\u0107<\/strong>\u2019s insistence, who was a famous school benefactor in Serbia. She took Latin, Rhetoric, Syntax and Poetry. Marta graduated from the First Serbian Grammar School (today\u2019s Zmaj Jovina Grammar School) in Novi Sad, where only men went to even decades later.<\/span><\/p>\n

Marta married merchant Jovan Jorgovi\u0107<\/strong> when she was 25 years old, which was considered late at the time. She had four children and died before the age of forty, around 1780.<\/span><\/p>\n

Draginja Ru\u017ei\u0107, the First Serbian Professional Actress<\/span><\/h2>\n
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Draginja Ru\u017ei\u0107<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Draginja Ru\u017ei\u0107, born in Vranjevo (today\u2019s Novi Be\u010dej) on 2 October 1834, was the first Serbian professional actress. She was a member of the Serbian National Theatre\u2019s ensemble in Novi Sad<\/a>. Draginja was the daughter of priest Luka Popovi\u0107<\/strong> and his wife Milica<\/strong>, a housewife. She was the first to leave the family house and become part of the amateur association in Serbian \u010canad (Romania). On 17 July 1860, she performed for the first time, playing Vidosava in Ajduci<\/em> by Jovan Sterija Popovi\u0107<\/strong>. Draginja was a woman of unusual beauty, strong temperament, high intelligence, great diction and chiming voice, a versatile person who could play any role. She was artistically brilliant in every genre and was superior to other actors, which led to a bigger salary. She worked in the Serbian National Theatre from 1861 and until the end of her acting career. Ru\u017ei\u0107 played the most diverse roles \u2013 from sentimental, drama, character, comic and serious roles, to roles requiring singing. It was estimated that she played around 350 roles, breathing life into each character she ever portrayed. Her ambition and careful work led to contemporary critics describing her as a high-ranking European artist. She stopped acting unexpectedly in 1989, after having spent 38 years on stage. It was quite a surprise since everyone thought she was at her full artistic strength. However, she wanted the audience to remember her in her best days.<\/p>\n

Draginja was married to actor Dimitrije Ru\u017ei\u0107<\/strong> and she contributed a lot to his artistic development. Their marriage was quite harmonious. Dimitrije Ru\u017ei\u0107 and Pera Dobrinovi\u0107<\/strong> (Draginja\u2019s son in law) were the best actors to ever set foot in the Serbian National Theatre.<\/span><\/p>\n

Draginja Ru\u017ei\u0107 died in Vukovar, on 6 September 1905, at the age of 71. Her remains were transferred to Novi Sad and buried in the Alma\u0161 Cemetery<\/a>, together with her husband Dimitrije and her niece Milka Markovi\u0107<\/strong>. Their gravestone was proclaimed a cultural monument in 1999.<\/span><\/p>\n

Priest Luka Popovi\u0107 and his wife Milica\u2019s family gifted the Serbian theatre with many famous people \u2013 the famous Priest-Luka\u2019s artistic dynasty. All five daughters and two sons were talented actresses and actors, in addition to being hard-working and ambitious \u2013 Draginja Ru\u017ei\u0107, Ljubica Kolarovi\u0107, Katica Popovi\u0107, Jelisaveta Jeca Dobrinovi\u0107, Sofija Vuji\u0107, Laza<\/strong> and Paja Popovi\u0107<\/strong>, as well as their sons and daughters in law \u2013 Dimitrije Ru\u017ei\u0107<\/strong>, Dimitrije Kolarovi\u0107<\/strong>, Pera Dobrinovi\u0107<\/strong> and Laza\u2019s wife Maria Adelsheim-Popovi\u0107<\/strong>. They made up almost half of the ensemble of the Serbian National Theatre in Novi Sad. Even Luka\u2019s grandchildren continued the acting tradition \u2013 Zorka Emilija Popovi\u0107 Todosi\u0107<\/strong> (the first to play Ko\u0161tana and one of the first Serbian television actresses), Milka Markovi\u0107<\/strong> (the first Serbian female director) and Luka Popovi\u0107<\/strong> (founder of the Serbian theatre for emigrants in America). Milka\u2019s son Dimitrije Mitica Markovi\u0107<\/strong>, great-grandson of priest Luka, was a great character actor and a talented opera singer.<\/span><\/p>\n

Milka (Milica) Markovi\u0107, the First Serbian Female Director<\/span><\/h2>\n
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Milka Markovi\u0107<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Milka Markovi\u0107<\/strong> was an actress, mezzo-soprano, translator and the first Serbian female director. She was one of the most striking and educated artists of her time. She acted and sang in over 225 plays, directed 16 plays and translated dramatic texts for the Serbian National Theatre. Milka was one of the few musically educated theatre artists; she worked on her strong mezzo-soprano and played the piano.<\/span><\/p>\n

She came from the acting dynasty of priest Luka from Vranjevo and was born in Pan\u010devo in 1869, to an artistic family. Her mother Sofija Maksimovi\u0107<\/strong> (later Vuji\u0107) was a famous actress in the Serbian National Theatre, while her father Aksentije Maksimovi\u0107<\/strong> was a composer and kapellmeister in the Serbian National Theatre as well. She lost her father quite early in life, Aksentije died in Prague. She received primary education in places her mother was acting and was graduated from a high school in Sombor. Milka had her first role when she was only five, became an intern in the National Theatre in Belgrade at the age of 14 and played around 20 roles in just two years. She began to work in the Serbian National Theatre in Novi Sad in 1885. She usually portrayed tragic characters, such as Shakespeare\u2019s Juliet, Ophelia and Cordelia, Schiller\u2019s Maria Stuart, Tosca (Sardou), An\u0111elija (Death of the Jugovi\u0107 Mother), Hasanaginica (Aleksa \u0160anti\u0107)\u2026<\/p>\n

In order to improve professionally, she started visiting theatre centres across Europe \u2013 Vienna, Prague, Berlin, Munich, Dresden, Paris, Rome, Genoa, Venice, etc., at the beginning of the 20th century. The versatile education of Milka Markovi\u0107 encompassed rich knowledge of literature, as well as Hungarian, German and French, which led to her translating dramatic texts from these languages. Some of the plays she translated for the Novi Sad audience include Mademoiselle Josette, My Woman<\/em> by Paul Gavault and Robert Charvay, Les Petites Mains<\/em> by Eug\u00e8ne Labiche and \u00c9douard Martin, The Polish Jew<\/em> by Erckmann-Chatrian. She directed a total of 16 plays throughout her career, all of which were staged in the Novi Sad theatre. The first drama she directed was Love<\/em> by Potapenko in 1911. And then Ghosts<\/em> by Ibsen, The Thief<\/em> by Bernstein, Alien Bread<\/em> by Turgenev, A Falu Rossza<\/em> by T\u00f3th Ede, Death of the Jugovi\u0107 Mother<\/em> by I. Vojnovi\u0107, Hasanaginica<\/em> by A. \u0160anti\u0107\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

Milka Markovi\u0107\u2019s private life was marked by two tragedies. The first is the death of her son Stevan<\/strong>, right before the First World War, and the second is her husband Mihailo<\/em>\u2019s suicide in Genoa, where they lived during the war. After they came back to the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, she held a series of concerts across the country with her son Dimitrije, who was also an actor, singer and director. She got back on stage of the Serbian National Theatre and was officially retired in 1925 but continued to work due to bad financial circumstances. She died in Novi Sad in May 1930. Milka was buried in the Alma\u0161 Cemetery. She was awarded the Order of St. Sava. Today, the streets in Novi Sad and Pan\u010devo bear her name.<\/span><\/p>\n

Zorka Lazi\u0107, the First Female Journalist<\/span><\/h2>\n

Zorka Lazi\u0107<\/strong> was the first female journalist in Vojvodina. She was born around 1878 in Ne\u0161tin, a place in Vojvodina, to a rich merchant and property owner \u2013 Svetozar Mileti\u0107<\/strong>\u2019s nephew. Zorka\u2019s parents invested a lot in her education. She graduated from a high school in Slavonian Po\u017eega and was preparing for serious literary work. Since a young age, she was writing for the Zastava<\/em> newspaper, hiding behind a pseudonym. Himna mom dedi Svetozaru Mileti\u0107u<\/em> (en. Anthem to My Grandpa Svetozar Mileti\u0107) is the only printed work of hers.<\/span><\/p>\n

When she was 20, Zorka married Sima Lukin Lazi\u0107<\/strong>, a writer, journalist and editor-in-chief of Vra\u010d poga\u0111a\u010d<\/em>, a satirical political periodical.<\/span><\/p>\n

She became a widow with four children when she was only 24. Zorka went from a carefree, rich and happy woman to a woman uncared for and without money. Before this happened, her parents experienced an economic collapse, and Zorka took it upon herself to care for them and her sister. She wanted to preserve the periodical Vra\u010d poga\u0111a\u010d<\/em>, which her husband left her, but subscriptions weren\u2019t regular and the expenses piled up. She often deprived herself of both sleep and food in order to save the periodical that Sima loved dearly and that she thought was important for Serbs. After eight years of working as editor-in-chief, administrator and author of texts, she decided to stop the publication. The last time Vra\u010d poga\u0111a\u010d<\/em> was published was on 14 July 1914.<\/span><\/p>\n

Zorka Lazi\u0107 reoriented toward charity work. And she did great. She worked in fostering the children, providing them with shelter and food, for which she was awarded the Order of Saint Sava by king Aleksandar. After the First World War, she came back to journalism and publishing and started a children\u2019s periodical (sr. De\u010diji list<\/em>). She cooperated with the Zagreb\u2019s monthly \u017denski Svet (en. Women\u2019s World<\/em>) and Belgrade\u2019s weekly Jugoslovenska \u017dena (en. A Yugoslav Woman<\/em>). Zorka was one of the founders of the Yugoslav journalist section in Novi Sad. She committed to bettering the social position of journalists. When the journals and magazines she worked on stopped being published, she completely retreated from public life. Zorka Lazi\u0107 died in 1948.<\/p>\n

Ana Lazuki\u0107, the First Professional Woman Photojournalist<\/span><\/h2>\n

Ana Lazuki\u0107<\/strong>, born Anna Hemm, was the first professional woman photojournalist in the former Yugoslavia. Ana was born in Novi Sad in 1937. She learned tailoring in Kula and then enrolled in the College of Vocational Studies for the Education of Preschool Teachers in Novi Sad. There, she fell in love with photography and joined the photo-cinema club Branko Baji\u0107<\/em>, where she gained basic knowledge and started to participate in exhibitions across the country, winning many awards. She studied Hungarian language and literature, and although she never graduated, Ana acquired rich knowledge of her mother tongue.<\/span><\/p>\n

Soon after, she started working as a journalist in an editorial board of daily newspaper Magyar Sz\u00f3<\/em>, one of the leading newspapers in Vojvodina in the Hungarian language. She wanted to illustrate texts with her own photographs, but the chief editor didn\u2019t allow her entrance to the laboratory, saying as long as he\u2019s director, no woman would be a photojournalist in the newspaper. After she married photographer Stevan Lazuki\u0107<\/strong> and gave birth to her daughter Katarina<\/strong>, Ana started working as a lector in the editorial board of the youth periodical K\u00e9pes Ifj\u00fas\u00e1g<\/em>, where she stayed from 1970 to 1974. The new editor-in-chief of Magyar Sz\u00f3<\/em> asked her to come back to be a photojournalist, which she gladly accepted. She stayed there for almost 30 years, until her retirement in 1990.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ana Lazuki\u0107 did both journalistic and artistic photography. In addition to photographing political and cultural events and their participants, she photographed different life scenes as well. Those were mainly the situations from everyday life, with a dash of symbolism, humour and metaphors. Some of her best works include images of demonstrations and people gathered together, students, homeless people, couples, enthralled readers, concerts and fashion events, as well as lives of people on the periphery. The works were captured in America, England, Spain, France, Italy, Denmark\u2026 She was one of the first female photojournalists to watch the Vojvodina Assembly\u2019s sessions and football games at the stadium of Vojvodina. She participated in more than 300 joint exhibitions in the country and abroad and held 19 solo exhibitions. She won numerous awards in Novi Sad, Belgrade, Split, Dubrovnik, Skopje, Tokyo and Montevideo.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ana Lazuki\u0107 died in 2020, at the age of 83, from the coronavirus. She was buried in the New Cemetery in Petrovaradin. She once said, \u2018I lived for photography and I captured life.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n

Olga Had\u017ei\u0107, the First Rectrix Magnifica<\/span><\/h2>\n

Academician Olga Had\u017ei\u0107<\/strong>, PhD, was a Serbian mathematician, academician of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts and the first woman rector in Serbia (1996-1998). She was born in Novi Sad in 1946 to father Lazar<\/strong> and mother Radmila<\/strong>. Her father was a lawyer, whose grandpa Ilija Ognjanovi\u0107<\/strong> was a writer and a doctor. Having finished primary school, she enrolled in the Jovan Jovanovi\u0107 Zmaj Grammar School, as well as in the Instrumental Piano Department of the Isidor Baji\u0107 Music School. She got her bachelor\u2019s degree in mathematics from the Faculty of Philosophy in 1968, becoming assistant professor of the Department of Mathematics at the newly opened Faculty of Sciences in Novi Sad that same year. She defended her master\u2019s thesis at the Faculty of Mathematics in Belgrade in 1970. Two years later, in March 1972, she obtained her PhD degree from the Faculty of Sciences in Novi Sad. She also earned her master\u2019s degree in tourism in 2005 and defended her second PhD thesis in strategic management in tourism only a year later.<\/span><\/p>\n

Olga Had\u017ei\u0107 acquired all teaching titles from the Faculty of Sciences in Novi Sad. She was appointed assistant professor in 1973, associate professor in 1977, and full professor in 1981. She became a corresponding member of the Vojvodina Academy of Sciences and Arts in 1984, and a full member in 1990. She became a full member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (Serbian abbreviation \u2013 SANU<\/em>) in 1991. Within SANU, she was a member of the Department of Mathematics, Physics and Geosciences.<\/span><\/p>\n

Disciplines of her scientific work include numerical mathematics, methods of functional analysis, topology and probability theory. As an author and co-author, she published more than 200 scientific papers and 21 books. She was elected rector of the University of Novi Sad in 1996 and thus became the first female rector (rectrix magnifica) in Serbia. She was the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Mathematics of the Faculty of Sciences<\/em> from its founding in 1971 to 1995. Olga Had\u017ei\u0107 was a prominent scientist, professor, erudite, great humanist, philanthropist and winner of a large number of awards and charters. She died at the age of 73, on 23 January 2019. Olga was buried in the City Cemetery in Novi Sad.<\/span><\/p>\n

Aleksandra Ivo\u0161ev, the First Female Olympic Gold Medalist<\/span><\/h2>\n

Aleksandra Ivo\u0161ev<\/strong> is a Serbian athlete and a former member of Serbia\u2019s Archery team. She won gold Olympic medals in Atlanta. She was born in Novi Sad in 1974. Aleksandra started archery when she was 13, inspired by Karl May\u2019s books. She won her first medal when she was only 16 and became a European champion when she was 17. She used to break personal records in the biggest competitions.<\/span><\/p>\n

She appeared at the Olympic Games three times. At the Olympics in Barcelona in 1992, Aleksandra participated independently since Yugoslavia was sanctioned. She finished 14th. The Olympics in Atlanta brought her two medals. She won a gold and a bronze. That\u2019s how Aleksandra Ivo\u0161ev became the first gold medalist at the Olympic Games in Yugoslavia, i.e. Serbia and Montenegro. She won third place in the air rifle discipline at the European Championship in Budapest that same year. Aleksandra wasn\u2019t prepared enough for the Olympic Games in Sydney in 2000, but came anyway at the special invitation of the World Shooting Federation.<\/span><\/p>\n

In 1996, she was awarded the Gold Badge for the most successful athlete in Yugoslavia by the daily sports newspaper Sport<\/em>. That same year, the Sports Committee of FR Yugoslavia declared her the best female athlete. After these successes, Aleksandra withdrew from sports and gave priority to her family. She stopped training in 2003. In the meantime, she got married and had three sons. She works in the Archery Association of Vojvodina.<\/span><\/p>\n

Katarina Lengold Marinkovi\u0107, the First Female Lawyer<\/span><\/h2>\n

Katarina Lengold Marinkovi\u0107<\/strong> is the first woman to become an approved lawyer. She was enrolled with the Vojvodina Bar Association on 2 September 1933. At the time, women weren\u2019t allowed to vote. They got the right to vote in 1945.<\/span><\/p>\n

Half a century earlier, Marija Milutinovi\u0107 Punktatorka<\/strong> lived in Belgrade. She was considered the first female lawyer, or rather the attorney. She did finish the Faculty of Law in Pest, but she occasionally worked as an advocate. Formally, she was never part of the bar, nor did the ministry ever concede the right to call herself an attorney. Thus, we consider Katarina Lengold Marinkovi\u0107 the first official woman lawyer within the modern system.<\/span><\/p>\n

Katarina was born in Petrovaradin in 1904. She lost her parents quite young and was appointed a guardian of the girls\u2019 grammar school in Novi Sad. She graduated from the Faculty of Law in Subotica. The original copy of her degree is exhibited in the hall of the Vojvodina Bar Association. During her studies, she met Lav Lengold<\/strong> who came to Serbia from Russia in 1918 and who later became a judge. Katarina and Lav\u2019s marriage didn\u2019t last long. They got divorced and Katarina never married again nor had children. She passed the bar exam in 1932 and was enrolled with the bar a year later. In her career, Katarina mostly dealt with civil and family law. Most of her clients were women. She was very active in women\u2019s movements and was part of the International Association of Women Intellectuals.<\/p>\n

During the Second World War\u2019s occupation, Katarina Lengold Marinkovi\u0107 was not allowed to work in advocacy, not because she was a woman, but because she was deemed politically and ethically unsuitable. After the occupation, she worked as a guardian of the Vojvodina Bar Association. Thanks to her, the whole archive dating back to 1875 was preserved. In 1949, she quit the bar association deeply disappointed with the new directorate influenced by the Communist Party. Katarina Lengold retired in 1956. She lived a quiet life in Sremski Karlovci until the tragic death in 1974. She died in Zagreb, in one of the biggest train accidents.<\/span><\/p>\n

Katarina Lengold Marinkovi\u0107 was the first woman lawyer who was divorced and who was financially independent. She was a member and a leader of many women\u2019s movements. Katarina was a respected and appreciated lawyer. Despite her successful career and lifelong support to gender equality, she is not remembered by many.<\/span><\/p>\n

Savka Suboti\u0107, the First Active Women\u2019s Rights Activist<\/span><\/h2>\n
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Savka Suboti\u0107<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Jelisaveta Savka Suboti\u0107<\/strong> was one of the first feminists in Vojvodina and one of the most significant practical female pedagogues in Vojvodina in the 19th century. As a result of her work on the emancipation of women, she received the honorary membership of numerous local and international women\u2019s organisations.<\/span><\/p>\n

Savka was born into a respectable merchant family Polit on 11 October 1834. Her brother Mihajlo Polit Desan\u010di\u0107<\/strong> was a prominent politician, journalist and writer. When she turned four, she was sent to a private primary girls\u2019 school. She continued her education in Timi\u0219oara and then Vienna, where she married Jovan Suboti\u0107<\/strong> in 1851. Jovan Suboti\u0107 was a doctor of law, writer and politician, one of the most important persons of cultural and political life of Serbs in the Habsburg Monarchy in the 19th century. They had seven children. One of their sons, Vojislav<\/strong>, became a famous Serbian doctor, founding father of practical surgery and the whole operational medicine in Serbia as well as one of the founders of the Faculty of Medicine in Belgrade.<\/span><\/p>\n

Savka Suboti\u0107 worked as an advocate for female education and was leading the action for opening high schools for girls in Serbia, which were opened in Novi Sad and Pan\u010devo in 1874, and in Sombor in 1875. Her goal was to better the position of women in society and to allow them the right to education and work. She invested a lot in pedagogical work among the youth and women in the countryside. She understood the value of women’s folk handicrafts and focused part of her activities on the development, production and branding of Serbian folk handicrafts, i.e. domestic industry. The products they made themselves, such as carpets, Serbian linen and embroidery, as well as certain products made according to Savka’s ideas, conquered the world. Savka Suboti\u0107 founded the system of studying carpets in Vojvodina, as well as the chronological classification of carpet development. Awards received at world exhibitions, including the award at the Paris exhibition in 1900, speak in favour of Savka\u2019s achievements.<\/span><\/p>\n

Savka Suboti\u0107 attracted great attention of the European public in Vienna, London, Paris, Rome, Stockholm, and she was written very affirmatively about in many European newspapers. After the lecture Women in the east and the west, held at the Vienna Science Club in 1911 and her speech at the International Congress on Women’s Voting Rights in 1913, she became the most famous woman from the region. She collaborated with the leading world and European feminists, such as R\u00f3zsa Schwimmer<\/strong>, K\u00e4the Schirmacher<\/strong>, Carrie Chapman Catt<\/strong>, Bertha Pappenheim<\/strong>. None of her contemporaries from the Novi Sad cultural circle has attracted as much attention from the European public as she did. Savka Suboti\u0107 was among the leading feminists at the end of the 19th century. Her fight for women’s rights includes the following: compulsory and quality education and schooling of female children, qualification of women for different occupations and their inclusion in work through fair wages, economic empowerment of women from the rural areas, political rights of women, change of attitude towards illegitimate children, gender role reform through marriage reform, anti-militarism (reduction of the budget for the army and budget increase for agriculture and culture), popularization of the local women’s movements and inclusion in international movements.<\/p>\n

She received the honour of Serbian and Russian courts. In Novi Sad, she formed the First Women\u2019s Charitable Cooperative, which financed the education of girls who were not well off. She was the first president of the Circle of Serbian Sisters<\/em>. She left written records on many famous and significant persons from the second half of the 19th century.<\/span><\/p>\n

Savka Suboti\u0107 died in Novi Sad, on 25 November 1918, the day when Baranja, Ba\u010dka and Banat joined the Kingdom of Serbia. Her remains were transferred to Zemun and buried in the Suboti\u0107 family tomb. Despite the achievements Serbian people are deeply indebted to her, her life and work are not spoken of, especially in the Novi Sad cultural community, a place where she was born and raised.<\/span><\/p>\n

Author<\/strong>: Ljiljana Dragosavljevi\u0107 Savin, master historian<\/span>
\nPhoto<\/strong>: Wikipedia<\/a>
\nTranslated by<\/strong>: Marija Proti\u0107<\/span>
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