The master’s thesis explores how professional female visual artists in the Socialist Republic of Slovenia (SRS) balanced motherhood with their artistic careers between 1945 and 1991, with a particular focus on the accessibility and use of maternity leave. The research is based on the method of oral history. It includes eleven semi-structured interviews with artists who studied at the Ljubljana Academy of Fine Arts during the specified period and became mothers. The first section outlines the theoretical and methodological framework of the study. The second section situates the topic within the broader socio-political context of the time through an analysis of legislation, ideology, and public discourse related to maternity leave in the SRS. The third section focuses on the analysis of the artist’s personal experiences of motherhood and maternity leave within the visual arts field in the SRS, as well as on their discourse regarding these issues in relation to the structural characteristics of the field itself.
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