She is best known for writing in favour of women's rights in the magazine Slovenka, and is considered the first Slovenian feminist.
[2] Dolinar became interested in women's issues while studying to become a teacher, which inspired her to write articles on the subject that were published in various Austrian magazines.
Her most influential work was published in Slovenka ("Slovene Woman"), a magazine run from 1897 to 1902 that featured writing mainly by female teachers.
[2] Her most influential and widely read article, "Svobodna ljubezen in zakon" ("Free love and marriage"), was published in 1900 and proclaimed that divorce ought to be permissible when both spouses found the relationship "unbearable", a sentiment that contradicted the Catholic values held by most Slovenians at the time.
[1] Throughout the period during which Slovenia was governed by communist Yugoslavia, beginning in 1945, Dolinar and other activists for the feminist movement were condemned, and only since Slovenia gained independence from Yugoslavia in 1991 has she been regarded as "a pioneer of Slovenian feminist thought".