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erhood, the place where the free development
of a women’s personality is restricted.
She thought that women themselves have
to fight for a better position in society by
becoming personalities and desisting from
being sexual objects. In her opinion, women
have a right to love and sexual satisfaction,
but if women are the only ones to emancipate
themselves while society doesn’t change,
this would be the tragedy of women’s emancipation,
because they would remain without
appropriate partners. Untiringly – and risking
imprisonment, which she suffered twice
- she gave lectures about womens’ rights to
decide on their bodies, including the right to
sexual education and contraception, which
she considered of primary importance.
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Following my preoccupation with Emma
Goldman, I wanted to see if there is a trace
of this big anarchist wave rolling over
Europe in 19th century Serbia, and I encountered
Jelena Ilka Marković. I’ve now
completed her bibliography. As a feministoriented
historian, it’s my task to produce
new knowledge about women’s activities,
to connect scattered items of information,
and to assess them and inscribe them into
the mainstream history written by men. My
thesis is that Jelena Ilka Marković, the woman
who shot at King Milan in 1882, wife of
the influential politician and officer Jevrem
Marković and daughter-in-law of Svetozar
Marković, the first Serbian socialist, was not
only a desperate widow shooting at King
Milan to avenge her husband’s murder four
years earlier. I believe she definitely also had
political motives, which originated from her
clear political attitude and her posture in the
immediate but also wider ideological context
of anarchism and the Russian ‘People’s Will’
movement (Narodnaya Volya), and I think I
can prove this. My special work is Jelena Ilka
Marković’s biography, and my magister work
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je smatrala od najvećeg značaja – rizikujući
da bude osuđena na zatvorske kazne, koje je
dva puta i izdržala.
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Posle mog interesa za Emu Goldman, htela
sam da vidim da li u Srbiji ima neki odraz
tog velikog anarhističkog talasa koji je prošao
Evropom tokom 19. veka i naišla sam na Jelenu
Ilku Marković. Do sad sam sastavila njenu
bibliografiju, kao feministički nastrojena
istoričarka, moja je dužnost da proizvedem
nova znanja o ženskoj aktivnosti, da sastavim
te rasute informacije i da ih vrednujem a
onda upišem u ovu istoriju glavnog toka koju
pišu muškarci. Moja teza je da Jelena Ilka
Marković, žena koja je pucala na kralja Milana
1882. godine supruga uticajnog političara
i oficira Jevrema Markovića i snaja Svetozara
Markovića srpskog prvog socijaliste, nije bila
samo očajna udovica koja je pucala na kralja
Milana samo da muža osveti, 4 godine posle
ubistva Jevrema Markovića. Mislim da je ona
definitivno imala i političkih motiva koji su
proizašli iz njenih jasnih političkih stavova
kao i iz stavova njenog neposrednog ali i šireg
ideološkog konteksta anarhizma i ruskog narodnovoljskog
pokreta i mislim da ja to mogu
da dokažem. Moj specijalistički rad je biografija
Jelene Ike Marković, moj magistarski
rad će biti politička strana njenog atentata.
U Arhivu grada Beograda pročitala sam 450
stranica njenog slučaja, njenog suđenja i istrage
i mislim da tu definitivno ima dokaza o
njenim jakim političkim stavovima u odnosu
na vrstu vlasti koju je kralj Milan sprovodio
tj. o političkoj motivisanosti njenog atentata.
Istorija je do sada bila samo zainteresovana
da li je njen atentat bio deo zavere šire grupe?
Nije bila zavera šire grupe, u najboljem
slučaju to je bila zavera dve žene. Mislim da
mogu da stavim atentat u kontekst evropske
istorije naročito anarhističkih atentata tog
doba i uticaja atentata na Ruskog cara u kome
su učestvovale žene.