On the Slovenian territory, the women's movement began after 1848, when women started entering the public sphere as defenders of the Slovenian nation. The thesis touches upon a dichotomy between the private and public lives. The private sphere was supposed to be the domain of women, while the public one was reserved for men. The research focuses on the lives of nine women, who were some of the first to work publicly in Trieste and Ljubljana, and attempts to explore their intimate and private lives within their families more thoroughly. Additionally, it tries to evaluate the events that happened in the private and the intimate spheres in the light of the bourgeois morality of the 19th century. The thesis tries to establish whether it is possible to unambiguously separate the private and public lives of women or a certain continuity can be observed.
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