Nevenka Petrić

Nevenka Petrić
Nevenka Petrić
Born	Nevenka Petrić (1927-03-11)11 March 1927 Maslovare
Died	27 December 2015(2015-12-27) (aged 88) Belgrade, Serbia
Occupation	Writer
Nationality	Serbian
Notable works	Kap rose na cvetku (“Drop of Dew on a Flower”) I zvijezde smo dosezali ("We Even Reached the Stars"), vols 1, 2 & 3 Sto pedeset godina moje porodice 1855 - 2005 ("One Hundred and Fifty Years of My Family 1855–2005")

Nevenka Petrić (11 March 1927, Maslovare – 27 December 2015 Belgrade) was a Serbian writer, poet, educationalist, and expert in the fields of family planning and gender relations. She joined the Partisans at the age of 14. She became a youth leader and then a head of Health and Social Policy in Yugoslavian local government. She was a member of the Yugoslav women's assembly, secretary of the Conference for Social Activity of Yugoslav Women (1961–69), and president of the Family Planning Council of Yugoslavia (1968–76). She represented Europe on the Central Council of the International Planned Parenthood Federation, and was president of that body's European committee for education. She assisted the United Nations Population Fund's research projects and also directed a UN course on gender relations and parenthood for students from developing countries.

Petrić has written many published works on family planning and gender relations, and has also written poetry published in four collections.

Nevenka's mother, Natalija Petrić née Popović, teacher, participant of the War of Liberation since 1941

Nevenka's father, Vaso Petrić, merchant and mayor of Maslovare, local uprising organizer

Work

Academic and general

Nevenka Petrić published thirteen books, including one trilogy, We Even Reached the Stars (I, II and III) (1996). Also, a bibliography of Nevenka Petrić's publications over 50 years was published in 1997, titled Nevenka Petrić: Bibliography 1945–1995 (which included 893 works published in the above-mentioned period), as well as the book One Hundred and Fifty Years of My Family 1855–2005 (2006). Her doctoral thesis "Human Freedoms, Birth, Self-Management", which highlighted the constitutional human right to planned parenthood in Yugoslavia, was also published.

She also published three books in English:

• "The Human Right to Free Choice on Childbirth in the Social Federal Republic of Yugoslavia" (1945). This book was first published in English and served as crucial material for the state delegation of the Republic of Yugoslavia for the World Congress of Women, held under the auspices of the United Nations. Nevenka Petrić was a member of that delegation at the World Congress of Women, held in Mexico in 1975. After the conference, 500 more copies were published in Serbian.
• "The Integration of the Contents on Humanization of Relations between the Sexes and Responsible Parenthood into Curricula of Pedagogic and Psychological Disciplines for Training of Pedagogues, Psychologists and Teachers" (1980).
• "Children in Yugoslav Socialist Self-Management Society" (1980).

In addition Petrić was a co-author of 21 publications (12 in Serbian, one in Macedonian and one in English), as well as numerous studies and articles in both Serbian and foreign languages.

Poetry

Nevenka Petrić is also an author of four collections of poems:

• “I Searched for a Ray of Light with My Eyes” (1993), 57 pages, copyrighted issue
• “Inscription in the Wind" (1994), 65 pages, copyrighted issue
• “Spring Accords" (1994), 79 pages, copyrighted issues
• “Drop of Dew on a Flower” (1996)

Nevenka Petrić, 1945

External links

• Nevenka Petrić website