Женското движение в България през призмата на един живот (Димитрана Иванова)
The Women’s Movement in Bulgaria in a Life Story (Dimitrana Ivanova)

Summary/Abstract: Dimitrana Ivanova died in 1960 at the age of 79. For a long time – from 1926 to 1944 she was Chairwoman of the Women’s Union in Bulgaria. For the public her name, admired by some and ridiculed by others, became a synonym for a stubborn and rebellious person. Her whole life was dedicated to the feminist cause and she passed through the various stages of the struggle for women’s emancipation in Bulgaria. Her life spanned two epochs – the “bourgeois” epoch in Bulgaria prior to World War II and the communist regime. She had to overcome enormous obstacles in both. Paradoxically, while she was considered to be on the left in the pre-communist era, she barely escaped execution for being a prominent “bourgeois” public figure (and having numerous contacts abroad) after the communists seized power. The story of Dirmtrana’s life is intimately intertwined with several decades of history of the women's movement in Bulgaria and narrating it gives an idea about the women's movement itself, besides being indicative of the wider socio-political and ideological context in which the struggle for emancipation of the Bulgarian women had to take place.

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