- Description
- 1 online resource.
- Summary
- "The 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, veteran 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 book on the subject based on archival research, it investigates previously unexplored issues of gender, sexuality, and memory, providing a novel interpretation of the Partisan movement and women's mobilization. Contributes to current debates in multiple fields of scholarship: gender and war studies, women's/gender history, social history of war, comparative communism, East European studies, military history"--Provided by publisher.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction -- 1. "To the people, she was a character from folk poetry" : the party's mobilizing rhetoric -- 2. The "organized women" : developing the AFW -- 3. The heroic and the mundane : women in the units -- 4. The personal as a site of party intervention : privacy and sexuality -- 5. After the war was over : legacy -- Concluding remarks.
- ISBN
- 9781316118627
- 1316118622
- 9781316320327
- 1316320324
- OCLC
- 910964614
- Author
Batinić, Jelena.
- Title
Women and Yugoslav partisans : a history of World War II resistance / Jelena Batinić (Stanford University).
- Publisher
New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
- Type of Content
text
- Type of Medium
computer
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Source of description
Print version record.
- Connect to:
- Chronological Term
1939-1945
- Other Form:
Print version: Batinić, Jelena. Women and Yugoslav partisans 9781107091078 (DLC) 2015003331 (OCoLC)906936009