The names 19 deserving women have not survived the ravages of time and the chance go the social system, as evidenced by the change of names of Sarajevo streets.
Activists of CURE Foundation have therefore created the women’s map of the city of Sarajevo, which they wish to draw attention to the constant ‘erasure’ of women from our history, philosophy, science, literature and other areas and lack of affirmation of all those who dedicated their lives to building a democratic and better B&H.
The public promotion of the women’s map of Sarajevo was held last night in Art Kino Kriterion in Sarajevo. The map was presented by Merima Omeragić, Ph.D candidate of the Faculty of Philosophy and associate at the University of Sarajevo.
Of the 1037 streets in today’s Sarajevo, only 15 women in its history ‘desrved’ to bear the names of city streets. What are their merits and why did only some of them manage to survive, is a question that only a relatively small number of citizens ask. 16 streets with female names have changed to mostly male names, as well as common names. Today there are 10 streets in Sarajevo that have a women’s name, streets that were not previously named.
New streets and new heroines: Atifa Karalić, Aziza Šaćirbegović, Badema Sokolović, Habiba Stočević (Rizvanbegović), Queen Jelena, Mica Todorović, Nafija Sarajlić, Nasiha Kapidžić – Hadžić, Sisters Elčić and Ulmihana Čuvidina.
‘’It is interesting to note that the names thrown out were mainly politicians and activists, as well as folk heroine from the national liberation struggle’’, said Merima Omeragić. She added that ‘’In Sarajevo there were 18 streets that had female names. Today there are 15, so approximately the original. Of the once 18, only two streets with female names were kept the same (Mis Irbina and Nevjestina), and three names remained the same, but were switched to other streets (Nadežde Petrović, Vahide Maglajlić and Marice Uherke)
During the promotion, the fact was specifically pointed out that Sarajevo today be commended that the Theatre Square bears the name Susan Sontag, who dedicated a good part of her life to the fight for human rights in Sarajevo and B&H.
(Source: radiosarajevo.ba)
