The first part of the paper problematizes the research postulates that reject the findings of the contemporary feminist literary theory or do not take them into consideration. The paper then goes on to present the research topic of the feminist literary theory. In the second part of the paper the findings of feminist literary theory are applied to Zofka Kveder's novel Njeno življenje. With the investigative approaches offered by feminist literary theory the author discovers representations of motherhood that have been until now overlooked, and thematizations of the construction of feminine identity that are presented in the way as to stimulate the reader's reflection about his/her own identity
and the position of women in the society at the beginning of the 20 th c. and today. It is thus not
possible to agree with the evaluations of this novel that have been previously given by the literary
history; rather, they have to be partially rejected and partially supplemented with the new
characterization, i.e., the feminist novel.
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