Julka Hlapec Đorđević

Julka Hlapec Đorđević (Serbian Cyrillic: Јулка Хлапец Ђорђевић; 1882–1969) was a Serbian writer, feminist, critic, activist, philosopher, translator.

In the interwar period, along with Ksenija Atanasijević, with whom she had a very developed and close professional relationship and who regularly wrote about her books, she is one of the most important authors and activists. The first Serbian novel dealing with the adultery of a married woman was Milica Janković's "The Blue Lady" (Plava gospođa, 1924),

and the next one to elaborate on the same topic was "One Correspondence" (Jedno dopisivanje, 1932) by Julka Hlapec Đorđević. She worked diligently, publishing books and articles, collaborating with numerous international and domestic organizations. She published works in the most important feminist magazines of that time, as well as in literary magazines of the mainstream. That is why her name can be found in the bibliographies of the "Serbian Literary Gazette" and the Letopis ("Chronicle") of the Matica srpska, but also of the Women's Movement and the "Life" and "Work" newspapers, as well as many other papers of various profiles.

Writing in the 1930s, Julka Hlapec Đorđević built and developed a complex ideological system. Some of her ideas included individualism and the construction of female identity, the idea of modern marriage and the intellectualization of sexuality, as well as the transposition of theoretical thought into literary text. Her entire work has not yet been thoroughly studied.

Life

Julka Hlapec Đorđević, a top intellectual and one of the most educated women of the first half of the 20th century, was born in Stari Bečej, and spent almost her entire life abroad, mostly in Vienna and the Czech Republic.