222 KB61 KB201220252024Perissinotto, Matteoštevilka:2letnik:64str. 77-96ISSN:0353-0329DOI:10.51663/pnz.64.2.06COBISSID_HOST:212547075URN:URN:NBN:SI:doc-X0MKQKVEenInštitut za novejšo zgodovinoPrispevki za novejšo zgodovino1918–1922genderJulian MarchJulijska KrajinasamomorisuicidetransitiontranzicijaTriesteTrstzgodovinaženske“In a moment of supreme discomfort.”| an analysis of female suicides through the press in Trieste in the post-war transition (1918-1922)|The goal of this essay is to investigate from a gender perspective, through articles in the local press, the phenomenon of female suicides in Trieste during the transitional phase following WWI (1918-1922). This was due to a period of abrupt changes: political, administrative, and economic. In addition, hope for a better future and anxiety had been dashed with the increase in poverty and the rampant violence that swept through the city. In Triste in 1920 for the first time the number of female suicides exceeded the number of male suicides. Based on the judgments made in the press, three macro categories have been identified into which we can place the suicides: the “comprese” (understood) that committed or attempted suicides were considered to be socially acceptable, or at least justified, in so far as that they related to economic reasons, health or familial grief; those considered to be linked to “frivolous motives” and condemned by bourgeois morality because they were connected to matters of romance and family conflict; and finally, those of sex workers (prostitute), about whom open criticisms were put forward, as they were seen as a natural and physiological consequence of life in the brothelsCilj tega prispevka je z vidika spola raziskati pojav samomorov med ženskami v Trstu v prehodnem obdobju po prvi svetovni vojni (1918–1922) na podlagi člankov v lokalnem tisku. To je bilo obdobje nenadnih političnih, upravnih in gospodarskih sprememb. Poleg tega se je upanje na boljšo prihodnost prepletalo s tesnobo zaradi vse večje revščine in nebrzdanega nasilja, ki je pustošilo po mestu. Leta 1920 je v Trstu število samomorov med ženskami prvič preseglo število samomorov med moškimi. Na podlagi sodb v tisku so bile opredeljene tri makro kategorije, v katere lahko uvrstimo samomore: razumljivi (“comprese”) samomori ali poskusi samomorov, ki so veljali za družbeno sprejemljive ali vsaj upravičene, kadar so bili povezani z ekonomskimi razlogi, zdravjem ali žalovanjem za člani družine; samomori, ki so veljali za povezane z “lahkomiselnimi motivi” in jih je meščanska morala obsojala, ker so bili povezani z ljubezenskimi zadevami in družinskimi spori; in, nazadnje, samomori spolnih delavk (prostitutk), ki so jih odkrito kritizirali, saj so veljali za naravno in fiziološko posledico življenja v bordelihTEXTznanstveno časopisjejournalsSlovenian National E-content AggregatorNational and University Library of SloveniaInštitut za novejšo zgodovino