History of women in the Lovinac area from the beginning of the 20th century to the present day

Abstract

The topic of this paper is the life of a Lika woman and her everyday life. The paper compares the „traditional“ woman with today’s, „modern“ Lika woman in order to see the changes conditioned by different social and cultural processes and the geographical and historical determinism of the living space. The researched area is today’s municipality of Lovinac with its climates and hamlets, and it covers the period from the beginning of the 20th century until today. The paper is based on the analysis of existing material and literature, field research of personal experience of life in the area of Lika, i.e. autoreflexive method. In the field research, the method of semi-structured interviews and the method of life story (life story) were used.