2015/05/12 by Jelena Batinić · 1 citation
Economics, Econometrics and Finance · Psychology · Social Sciences · #Anthropology #Balkan and Eastern European Studies #Balkans: History, Politics, Society #Communism #Economic history #Egalitarianism #Folklore #Gender studies #Historical Gender and Feminism Studies #History #Law #Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration #Peasant #Political science #Politics #Resistance (ecology) #Socialism #Sociology #Spanish Civil War #World War II
paper · doi:10.1017/cbo9781316118627
published in Cambridge University Press eBooks (Cambridge University Press)
openalex publication_date 2015/05/12 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/30
This book focuses on one of the most remarkable phenomena of World War II: the mass participation of women, including numerous female combatants, in the communist-led Yugoslav Partisan resistance. Drawing on an array of sources - archival documents of the Communist Party and Partisan army, wartime press, Partisan folklore, participant reminiscences, and Yugoslav literature and cinematography - this study explores the history and postwar memory of the phenomenon. More broadly, it is concerned with changes in gender norms caused by the war, revolution, and establishment of the communist regime that claimed to have abolished inequality between the sexes. The first archive-based study on the subject, Women and Yugoslav Partisans uncovers a complex gender system in which revolutionary egalitarianism and peasant tradition interwove in unexpected ways.