Literature against the patriarchy
Women authors, critics and readers fighting together for emancipation.
|2022.05.17
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"The Balkans as it is today is a place where it's much easier to discuss the position of stars than the position of women, who are most of the time judged and subject to assessment by men."
Melida Travančić, writer.Sonja Ražnatović believes that women write about details, as opposed to men, who write about epochs, wars, religion and other similar "big topics".
Jelena Kontić
Jelena Kontić is a journalist from Montenegro who works with the independent daily Vijesti. Since 2018, she has been part of the multimedia project “Balkan Booster,” created by the German media outlet Deutsche Welle. She occasionally works with the Perspektiva.plus website as a correspondent. Jelena holds a degree in Journalism from the Faculty of Political Sciences in Podgorica.
This story was originally written in Serbian.