Žensko zdravlje i zarazna bolest u „Gričkoj vještici” Marije Jurić Zagorke

The paper analyzes the representations of women’s health and disease associated with epidemic smallpox in Habsburg Monarchy during reign empress Maria Theresa, which is thematized Croatian writer Marija Jurić Zagorka’s novel cycle Grička vještica (The Witch Grič). Health are considered as gendered experiences and, accordingly, gender coding strategies investigated. considers role discourses infectious establishing notions female beauty, desirable undesirable bodies, controlling lives, intra-gender hierarchies. It also investigates impact on creation fears taboos related to human health, disability (re)production negative attitudes discriminatory practices “normal” “abnormal” bodies. how contagious monarchical marriage policy represented, beauty function erotic political capital, through it contagion sociopolitical relations.