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Politički mit: konstrukcija ili destrukcija
Political Myth: Construction or Destruction

Author(s): Andrea Iveljić
Subject(s): Civil Society, Political history, Gender history, Social development, Sociology of Politics
Published by: Pedagoški fakultet Univerziteta u Bihaću
Keywords: Political myth; Yugoslavia; socialist feminist movement; female politics;

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of this essay is to remind of the existence of Yugoslavian political myths and its heroes, thanks to whom the European south for the first years after the World War II exists as a specific cultural surrounding, and for this reason represents to many an interesting exploration territory. The essay closes with an observation about the evolution of the socialist feminist movement, which was preceded by a frequent substitution of the desirable types of women, which was also covered in veil of political myths. This way, we have put the ending of an era of mythical narratives in a time of the dying out of the so called female question politics, and by doing so we have pointed out their correlation and collaboration on the path of transition that the Yugoslavia of its time was walking on.

  • Issue Year: 2011
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 96-101
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: Bosnian