„ТРАЈНОСТ РЕВОЛУЦИЈЕ ЗАВИСИ ОД ТОГА У КОЈОЈ МЕРИ У ЊОЈ УЧЕСТВУЈУ ЖЕНЕ”: КОМУНИСТИЧКА ПАРТИЈА ЈУГОСЛАВИЈЕ И ИДЕОЛОГЕМА НОВЕ ЖЕНЕ (1919–1940)
“THE PERMANENCE OF THE REVOLUTION DEPENDS ON THE EXTENT TO WHICH WOMEN PARTICIPATE IN IT”: THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF YUGOSLAVIA AND THE NEW WOMAN CONCEPT (1919–1940)

Author(s): Ivana Pantelić, Stanisalava Barać
Subject(s): Gender Studies, Social history, Gender history, Interwar Period (1920 - 1939), History of Communism
Published by: Institut za noviju istoriju Srbije
Keywords: women’s emancipation; emancipatory movements; emancipatory ideologies; new woman; peri- odical press; literature; CPY; USA; USSR; Kingdom of Yu- goslavia
Summary/Abstract: In this paper, the authors rely on two kinds of sources. First are European and North American periodical press and literature from the end of the nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth century, which are primary sources of the New Woman social concept and literary characters. The second and secondary sources are historiographical and theoretical considerations of this concept in different contexts (socialism, anarchism, communism, North American feminisms, European feminisms, history of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia, and Yugoslav feminist periodical press between the two world wars). The authors described how particular New Woman concepts (elaborated by Sara Grand, and Alexandra Kollonay) transferred from original periodical contexts to socialist, bourgeois, and communist feminist periodicals in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes / Yugoslavia: Jednakost (Equality, 1920), Ženski pokret (Women’s Movement, 1920–1938), Žena danas (Woman Today, 1936). Along with that, the authors explained how the policy and the position of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia in the state (legal, illegal, more or less active according to local and global circumstances) influenced the reception of the New Woman concept in the Yugoslav feminist counter-public, and among communist women themselves.

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