ovdje - Hrvatsko filozofsko društvo

na pitanja: Kakav je status starosti i starih žena u predmodernim kulturama?
Kako kultura u kojoj živimo tretira starenje? Što znači biti stara žena?
Što nam odnos prema starenju i starim osobama, posebno starim ženama,
govori o kulturi i društvu u kojem živimo? Rad se temelji na analizi problematike
starenja i životnih naracija starijih žena prezentiranim u romanu
Dubravke Ugrešić Baba Jaga je snijela jaje (2008). Pritom se posebno
provokativnom pokazuje ambivalentna i nadasve kontroverzna mitološka
junakinja Baba Jaga, koja – reinterpretirana u feminističkom ključu – u
sebi nosi nova značenja i emancipacijski potencijal za žene svih dobi.
WHO’S AFRAID OF BABA YAGA?
About Growing Old from Gender Perspective
Despite the fact that the growth of the old age population is noticeable
in the most European societies (and in the Croatian society as well), the
issues of growing old and personal experience of the old age population,
old women in particular, remain unnoticed. In the culture fascinated by
youth, old age is perceived in stereotypical ways, with a lot of prejudice, taboos
and fears that result in many negative perceptions and discriminative
practices. In this context there are some unavoidable questions considered:
What was the status of the old age and old women in pre-modern cultures?
In which way the contemporary culture treats growing old? What does it
mean to be an old woman? What do the attitudes towards growing old and
old persons, especially towards old women, reveal about the culture and the
society we live in? The paper is based on the analysis of aging issues and
life narratives of elderly women presented in the novel Baba Yaga Laid an
Egg (2008) by Dubravka Ugrešić. In doing so, Baba Yaga, the ambivalent
and highly controversial mythological heroine has been shown as a greatly
provocative character that – reinterpreted in the feminist key – assumes
new meanings and emancipatory potential for women of all ages.
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