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- Title
Aleksandrinstvo in aleksandrinke v slovenskem goriškem časopisju pred prvo svetovno vojno.
- Authors
Devetak, Robert
- Abstract
The article discusses newspaper reporting on female exodus to Egypt, which marked the migration movement in Gorizia at the turn of the twentieth century. The decision to set out for North Africa was predominantly made by young rural women who served as maids, governesses, nursemaids, cooks, or wet nurses to save money for marriage or remittances to their families. The developments were closely monitored by national and ecclesiastical elites in Gorizia. Perceiving such emigration and independence of the Alexandrian women as a threat to the moral norms and the sense of national belonging, they led an intensive anti-emigration newspaper campaign to prevent further exodus to Egypt. The contribution will present the main aspects of such reporting that featured in both the liberal and Catholic press of that time.
- Subjects
EGYPT; NORTH Africa; RURAL women; REPORTERS &; reporting; TWENTIETH century; NANNIES; MORAL norms
- Publication
Kronika, 2022, Vol 70, Issue 1, p123
- ISSN
0023-4923
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.56420/kronika.70.1.07