Žensko pitanje, obrazovanje i jugoslovenska država u revolucionarnom periodu 1942–1953
The Women’s Issue, Education, and the Yugoslav State in the Revolutionary Period, 1942–1953

Author(s): Jelena Batinić
Subject(s): History, Gender Studies, Sociology, Gender history
Published by: Етнографски институт САНУ
Keywords: revolution; “women’s issue”; women’s education; modernisation; gender equality; Women’s Antifascist Front (AFŽ); gender policies
Summary/Abstract: During the war and in the early post-war years, the Yugoslav Communist leadership introduced a series of socio-economic and cultural programmes aimed at transforming society and building a new socialist nation. Addressing the so-called “women’s issue” was an integral part of this groundbreaking project, and women’s education was seen as key to integrating them into the new order. Focusing on the formative period of the socialist state (1942–1955) and the rapid modernisation that characterised it, the paper analyses measures to educate women, create new intelligence, and overcome gender inequalities. Special attention was given to the activities and female activists of the Women’s Antifascist Front, an organisation tasked with working to eliminate illiteracy and raise political awareness among women. In the closing comments of the paper, the author discusses the achievements of the revolutionary gender policy, as well as of the gender policy of Yugoslav socialism in general.

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