Women and Revolution in Yugoslavia 1941-1945 (Women and Modern Revolution Series) - Softcover
The participation of women in the Yugoslav National Liberation Movement is one of the most significant events in modern history. In no other country in the world have women played such a decisive role in the achievement of victory over an occupying enemy and the creation of a Communist state.
Women and Revolution In Yugoslavia is the first book in English on women's role in the Yugoslav partisan movement of World War II. It is based on research in primary sources in Yugoslavia and on the author's interviews with Yugoslav women who fought in the war. The book examines the various functions that women performed in the fight against fascism and German occupation--as soldiers, as members of the Yugoslav Communist Party, and as part of the effort to provide support to those on the front lines. It also traces the evolution of the woman's movement and analyzes women's postwar status.
Many women partisans view their participation in the war as the decisive factor in the liberation of all Yugoslav women, as having opened the door to their equal participation with men in the building of the new Yugoslavia. But at the end of the 1970s, a new generation of Yugoslav women began to challenge these assumptions of emancipation, calling for radical changes in existing social values and institutions and an end to the patriarchal order. Jancar-Webster reconciles these radically different positions into a realistic picture of the gains made by women through their participation in the war.
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The history of the twentieth century has been marked by frequent revolutions and mass popular resistance to oppressive, dictatorial regimes. Although much has been written about these conflicts, with rare exceptions, the actors considered in each drama have been almost exclusively male.
To redress this gender bias, the Women and Modern Revolution Series examines women's role, as well as the function of sex/gender systems, in the revolutionary process. Each volume addresses the causes, social components, ideologies, organizations, goals, and results of revolution but also answers such questions as: What is gender-specific about revolution? Does revolution mean different things to men and women, and if so, why? What motivates women to become involved in collective rebellions? What are their contributions and expectations? How are women changed by their involvement? And finally, how does gender interact with other historic forces to determine the outcome of a revolutionary movement? Each volume in the series discusses these themes within the framework of a particular country's unique history and culture and traces the growth of feminist consciousness in that nation.
Dr. Barbara Jancar-Webster is a professor of political science at the State University of New York, Brockport. She is the author of Women Under Communism (Johns Hopkins University Press), Czechoslovakia and the Absolute Monopoly of Power (Praeger), and Environmental Management in the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia (Duke University Press).
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- PublisherArden Pr
- Publication date1990
- ISBN 10 0912869100
- ISBN 13 9780912869100
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages245
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