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  • VODE, Angela (1892–1985)
    Karmen Klavžar

    A Biographical Dictionary of Women's Movements and Feminisms, 06/2006
    Book Chapter

    Her name has been virtually unknown in Slovenia for the last fifty years. Yet one could say that her work and her life-story (or “destiny” as she put it) not only form a significant narrative in the history of Slovenia, with its political transformations (including developments and breaks within women’s movements and organizations), they also form a part of the wider history of feminism itself. Born on 5 January 1892, Angela Vode was the third daughter of five children raised in a poor working-class family. Her father Anton was a railwayman (died 1904). Of her mother, Frančiška, it is only