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Author Batinić, Jelena, author.

Title Women and Yugoslav partisans : a history of World War II resistance / Jelena Batinić (Stanford University).

Publication Info. New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
©2015

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Description 1 online resource
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series ACLS Humanities E-Book (Series)
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.
Bibliography 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.
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Subject World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Yugoslavia.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Female.
World War (1939-1945)
Women guerrillas -- Yugoslavia -- History.
Women guerrillas.
Yugoslavia.
History.
Women soldiers -- Yugoslavia -- History.
Women soldiers.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- Yugoslavia.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Social aspects -- Yugoslavia.
Sex role -- Yugoslavia -- History.
Sex role.
Collective memory -- Yugoslavia -- History.
Collective memory.
War and society -- Yugoslavia -- History.
War and society.
Yugoslavia -- Social conditions.
Social conditions.
Chronological Term 1939-1945
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
History.
Subject Gender roles.
Other Form: Print version: Batinić, Jelena. Women and Yugoslav partisans 9781107091078 (DLC) 2015003331 (OCoLC)906936009
ISBN 9781316118627 (electronic book)
1316118622 (electronic book)
9781316320327 (electronic book)
1316320324 (electronic book)
9781107091078
1107091071
9781107463073 (paperback)