Prilog istraživanju kulture djevojaštva nakon Prvog svjetskog rata: primjer djevojaka sa psihičkim smetnjama iz ruralnih krajeva kontinentalne Hrvatske
Contribution to Research of Girlhood after the First World War: an example of Girls with Mental Disorders from rural areas of Continental Croatia

Summary/Abstract: The paper discusses some aspects of the growing up of girls with mental disorders in rural areas of continental Croatia in the first decade after the end of the First World War. This includes girls in the middle and late adolescent phase treated at the Stenjevec Psychiatric Hospital, now Vrapče University Psychiatric Hospital. The paper analyzes their individual experiences of unfulfilled love with men in relation to traditional expectations of (non)acceptable femininity from the cultural anthropological perspective. In addition, this paper looks at the hospital’s everyday life of girls with mental disorders in the context of their activities organized under work therapy. According to the current research, signs of emotional instability and (auto)destructive behavior of the examined population are assumed to be due to their ignorance of the process of sexual maturation and the con - sequences caused by the experience of unattainable love relationships and the inability to get married. The work is based on the analysis of the girls’ psychiatric files and medical certificates dating from 1919 to 1929 stored in the Archives of the University Psychiatric Hospital Vrapče.

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