FEMINISTIČKI KONCEPT SLOBODNE LJUBAVI: EMA GOLDMAN
THE FEMINIST CONCEPT OF FREE LOVE: EMMA GOLDMAN

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with the development of the feminist concept of free love including its basic starting points through theoretical assumptions of the most important authors of this concept in the period of two centuries (18th — 20th century). Following Emma Goldman's understanding of marriage and free love, one of the assumptions of free love is analysed in the paper: that free, independent and autonomous beings are not self-sufficient because precisely their freedom is reflected in their needs and wishes to enjoy the freedom, independence and independence of the other party, in a love relationship, in which the only possible exchange is mental and physical satisfaction, arbitrarily, without the mediation of any institution, not for the sake of material interest, and only as long as the satisfaction is mutual. That free love denies sexual monopoly over partner and represent immediate, flexible and intangible relationship, which is one of the key features of the feminist concept free love, is explained, in addition to Emma Goldman, through the analysis of the novel Free Love by Alexandra Kollontai who was another significant representative of the concept of free love in the 20th century. The paper will also present the phenomenon of "women of the future" linking them with the phenomenon of the "new woman" and criticism of power relations in marriage, drawing primarily on the anarchy-feminist ideas of Emma Goldman. In addition to the rejection of the double patriarchal morality, the symbiosis of the concepts of free love and "new morality" is discussed and that symbiosis is viewed as a necessary element of the concept of free love and refers to the fact that every individual has the right to realize his/her love on the basis of his/ her own views and understandings of morality. Discussing the issues of new morality this paper also endeavours to offer an answer to the question of what the concept of free love offers us, and the institution of marriage takes away from us.

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