ABSTRACT
This study deals with Hajj of Bosnian women as depicted in the journals and publications of socialist Yugoslavia. Although women went on hajj throughout the 20th century and earlier, their visibility in the sources was not immediately obvious. The study follows several stages of discourse on female mobility: from debates on permissibility of travel for women, through crafting of the image of the ideal Hajja and defence against the attacks of hostile press to, finally, women themselves writing about their pilgrimage experiences. In this way, we can see the interplay of mobility and visibility, which do not necessarily overlap. The later decades of the 20th century show the ways in which opening of the public sphere contributed to the appearance of female writing on hajj and control of visibility on women’s own terms.
