„Срутените кумири“: българските женски елити като „патрони“ на обществени институции (ХІХ-ХХІ в.)
"Demolished Idols": Bulgarian Female Elites as "Patrons" of Public Institutions (19th -21st Centuries)

Summary/Abstract: The paper examines the naming of public institutions (schools, hospitals, community cen-ters, libraries, theaters, galleries, cultural centers, concert halls, mines, ships) or parts of them after prominent Bulgarian women from the late 19th century up to now. A major problem is the functioning of the symbolic "sites of memory" (Pierre Nora) in view of the collective memory of Bulgarian women and with particular emphasis on social transfor-mations in the middle and at the end of the 20th century. Based on the mostly unused ar-chival sources are analyzed: the complicated process of "inclusion" of Bulgarian women in public space and in the cluster of so-called reputational elites; the political conditioned replacement of certain individuals with others as patrons of institutions in the 1940s and the 1980s; the "visibility" of women in the “social field” during the 20th century.

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