21 | MODERN WOMEN THINKERS

The conference aims at various topics from the intellectual history of women in East Central Europe. It will focus on Croat, South Slavic/Yugoslav and Central European spaces from the last decades of the 19^th to the end of the 20^th centuries. That period saw more active involvement of women in social and public life with an aim of achieving political and legal equality of women. The conference will gather interdisciplinary scholars from the fields as diverse as history, education, literary theory, anthropology, philosophy. It will explain intellectual origins of modern woman in the context of changing social circumstances. It will trace development of ideas formulated by women in their intellectual endeavors, with their influence and criticism, changing their social position and defining the categories of intellectuals.