Women of Yugoslavia in the National Liberation War. by KOVACEVIC, Dusanka

Belgrade: Jugoslovenski Pregled, 1977.. Women in the Struggle for Social and National Equality Between the Two World Wars:: Political Parties and Women's Organizations; The St.Vitus Day Constitution and the Prohibition of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia; The Imposition of the Monarcho-Military Dictatorship of 1929; Women in the Anti-Fascist Movement (1935-1941). The National Liberation War and Socialist Revolution 1941 to 1945: The Anti-Fascist Front of Women; The Women's Struggle in the Occupied Towns; Women's Activity in the Liberated Territories; National Conference of the Anti-Fascist Front of Women; Women in Military Units; Women in the Fight to Save the Lives of Wounded Soldiers; First Time at the Polls; Freedom and Equality Won Through Bloodshed. 22cms x 12cms. Pp.70, 27 sepia photographs to front,compliments card of the Conference for Social Activities of Yugoslave Women loosely enclosed. Paperback, edges slightly rubbed. Scarce. VG.** "The Yugoslav National Liberation Movement claimed 6,000,000 civilian supporters; its two million women formed the Antifascist Front of Women (AFŽ), in which the revolutionary coexisted with the traditional. The AFŽ managed schools, hospitals and even local governments. About 100,000 women served with 600,000 men in Tito's Yugoslav National Liberation Army. It stressed its dedication to women's rights and gender equality and used the imagery of traditional folklore heroines to attract and legitimize the partizanka.[84] After the war women were relegated to traditional gender roles, but Yugoslavia is unique as its historians paid extensive attention to women's roles in the resistance, until the country broke up in the 1980s. Then the memory of the women soldiers faded away."(wiki). .