Lydia Sklevicky
Born(1952-05-07)7 May 1952
Died21 January 1990(1990-01-21) (aged 37)
NationalityCroatian
Alma materUniversity of Zagreb
Occupation(s)Feminist theorist, historian and sociologist

Lydia Sklevicky (7 May 1952 – 21 January 1990) was a Croatian feminist theorist, historian and sociologist. "The first Croatian scholar to address the social history of women from a feminist perspective, Sklevicky’s contribution to the disciplines of history, sociology and anthropology was unique—in many respects unrivalled today—as was her contribution to feminism."[1]

Life

Lydia Sklevicky was born in Zagreb, Yugoslavia (now Croatia) on 7 May 1952. She graduated from the University of Zagreb in 1976 with a double major of sociology and ethnology and subsequently worked for the Institute for the History of the Workers’ Movement in Croatia (Croatian: Institut za historiju radničkog pokreta Hrvatske). She gave birth to a daughter in 1978. Sklevicky received her M.A. from Zagreb in the sociology of culture in 1984. She was killed in an automobile accident in Delnice, Croatia, on 21 January 1990.[2]

Activities

Sklevicky coordinated the first feminist meetings in Zagreb in the late 1970s and was one of the founders of the group Women and Society (Croatian: Žena i društvo) in 1979. She served as the group's coordinator in 1982–83 and later volunteered for the Zagreb-based SOS Hotline for abused women and children. With Žarana Papić, she co-edited the first book of feminist anthropology in Yugoslavia in 1983, entitled Towards an Anthropology of Woman (Antropologija žene). In the late 1980s she was a columnist for the women's magazine World (Croatian: Svijet), addressing "numerous topics including abortion, the female body, witches and ‘respectable’ feminists".[3] A posthumous collection of her work, including her unfinished Ph.D. dissertation, Emancipation and Organization: The Antifascist Women’s Front and Post-revolutionary Social Change. (People’s Republic of Croatia 1945–1953) (Croatian: Emancipacija i organizacija, Uloga Antifašističke fronte žena u postrevolucionarnim mijenama društva (NR Hrvatska 1945–1953)), was published in 1996 in Horses, Women, Wars (Croatian: Konji, žene, ratovi).[4]

Notes

  1. Kašić, p. 520
  2. Kašić, pp. 517–18, 520
  3. Kašić, p. 519
  4. Kašić, p. 518

References

  • Kašić, Biljana (2005). "Sklevicky, Lydia". In Haan, Francisca de; Daskalova, Krassimira; Loutfi, Anna (eds.). Biographical Dictionary of Women's Movements and Feminisms in Central, Eastern, and South Eastern Europe: 19th and 20th Centuries. New York: Central European University Press. ISBN 978-963-7326-39-4.
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