SOCIJALISTIČKA MISAO I „ŽENSKO PITANjE“ – SVETOZAR MARKOVIĆ I DIMITRIJE TUCOVIĆ

To understand the discourse that the socialists had towards the Woman Question, the texts of Svetozar Markovic, Oslobođenje ženskinja and Pevanje i mišljenje were analyzed, as well as a couple of newspaper articles by Dimitrije Tucovic. Svetozar Marković, under the influence of John Stuart Mill, was the first in Serbia to raise the issue of women's liberation, accepting Mill's concept of gender equality. This author pays special attention to the economic position of women, finding in it all the weight of their social position. On the other hand, on the initiative of Dimitrije Tucović, the newspaper Jednakost was founded, as a newspaper of women-social democrats and at the same time as the first women's political newspaper in the Balkans. In this newspaper Tucović was presented as a key figure that led to the emancipation of women within the Social Democratic Party. Both Marković and Tucović saw the Woman Question as a political issue. What is perhaps most striking and important to point out is the connection between the Woman Question and complete social transformation.