Minka Govekar

Minka Govekar (28 October 1874 – 10 April 1950) was a Slovene teacher, translator, and campaigner for women's rights.[1]

Life

Minka Govekar was born in Trebnje in 1874. Completing her education at Ljubljana from 1889 to 1893, she qualified as a teacher in 1895 and married in 1897.[1]

In 1926 Govekar edited Slovenska žena (Slovenian Woman), a collection of articles on women in different periods of Slovenian history and different creative professions:

Slovenska ženska is the first Slovenian collection of women's essays and we take it to be a sort of a blueprint for some future thorough monograph about the suffering, striving and strife of Slovenian women.[2]

In her own contribution to the collection, an essay on women authors,[3] Govekar provided information on Fanny Hausmann, Jospina Turnograjska, Lujica Pesjak, Pavlina Pajkova, Marica Nadlišek Bartol, Marica II Strnad Cizarljeva and Zofka Kveder-Demetrovic.[2]

Works

  • Dobra kuharica (The Good Cook), 1903
  • Dobra gospodinja (The Good Housewife), 1908
  • Slovenska žena (Slovenian Woman), Ljubljana, 1926

References

  1. 1 2 Govekar, Minka (1874–1950), Slovenska biografija. Accessed 3 August 2019.
  2. 1 2 Jelena Petrović (2018). Women's Authorship in Interwar Yugoslavia: The Politics of Love and Struggle. Springer. pp. 115–7. ISBN 978-3-030-00142-1.
  3. ↑ Minka Govekar, Marija Borštnik, Milica Schaup, Vida Horvat and Mara Lamut, 'Slovenska ženska in slovensko slovstvo' [Slovenian Women and Slovenian Literature], Slovenska žena, 1926
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