Abstract
The lecture focuses on the gender aspects of reception Croatian women writers in the Context of Croatian literary Canon and in mapping out characteristic discourses within literature in the context of social aspects aims to explain why they are marginalized. It explores prescribed socially acceptable gender norms that connects women with private sphere and equals their reproductive and social roles, their symbolic bond to the "kitchen" that generates subordinate status and produces inequality.
In the context of Croatian prose in 19th century and 1980's that labelled femininity, sensibility and sexuality of "women's writing" as something trivial albeit its true meaning was opposition to values of the patriarchal phallogocentric discourse. Via transition.
The hunger for recognition as an equal in society is solved by transition from private object to public subject.