Women’s periodicals of Odesa at the beginning of the XX century

Abstract

The aim of the study is to define basic characteristics (particularly content, subject headings, and genres) of women’s press of Odesa at the beginning of the ХХ century. Three women’s periodicals (almanac, newspaper and collected articles) are the object of this article; they were published during 1900–1912, these are «Zhenskyj almanakh / Women’s almanac» (1900–1901), «Trudy slushatelnic Odesskih wysshih zhenskih kursov / Transactions of the listeners of Odessa high women’s courses» (1910–1911) and «Zhenskaya gazeta / Women’s newspaper» (1912).
Methods. Working of e-catalogs of three the biggest libraries of Ukraine and Russia in Kyiv, Moscow and Saint-Petersburg gave the possibility to find out he information about three women’s periodicals in Odesa. Scientific methods of analysis, typological aspect, comparison, generalizations were used in the process of research. Biographic method was expedient at defining the names of editors, publishers and authors of women’s press in Odesa.
Results and conclusions. While analyzing the above mentioned periodicals, their thematic, headings and basic genres were fixed. Women’s press in Odesa lighted up the questions of woman emancipation, the necessity of equal rights and possibilities in all public spheres, particularly in art and science. The names of publishers, editors and authors, such as O. Derevytskyj, I. Lynnychenko, D. Atlas, are brought to the history of Ukrainian journalism; creative biography of P. Hertso-Vynogradskyj got new facts.