RODNI, KLASNI, NACIONALNI I JEZIČKI ASPEKTI OBRAZOVANJA ŽENA U BOKI KOTORSKOJ: 18–20. VIJEK
GENDER, CLASS, NATIONAL AND LANGUGE ASPECTS OF FEMALE EDUCATION IN BOKA KOTORSKA: 18th – 20th CENTURY

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this work is to present the historical development of female education in Boka Kotorska with respect to the religious, class, national, language and gender conditions under which education changed and spread from the privilege of men to the need for education of both genders over the last two centuries. We focus on the elements of centuries-long systematic discrimination in the education of young women regarding the opportunities for education, which is one of the elements of their invisibility in public over the past and present periods. The development of female education has been inspected in two phases:Phase I: before the period of Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (when women were educated in convents, or by private teachers at home for those who could afford it);Phase II: during the Austro-Hungarian reign when public schools were opened for men and women – ladies` classrooms in Perast, Private Elementary School in Herceg Novi, First Women’s Trade School in Kotor (vocational school), and Private Women’s Civil School.The results show that an array of obstacles was in the way of the full recognition of equality in elementary and secondary education of both genders.It may be concluded that over the last two centuries the process of developing the education of female children in Boka Kotorska was rather slow when compared to the same process in other regions of Yugoslavia at the time.

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