Women and Yugoslav partisans : a history of World War II resistance /

"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, warti...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Batinić, Jelena (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Subjects:	World War, 1939-1945 > Underground movements > Yugoslavia. World War, 1939-1945 > Participation, Female. Women guerrillas > Yugoslavia > History. Women soldiers > Yugoslavia > History. World War, 1939-1945 > Women > Yugoslavia. World War, 1939-1945 > Social aspects > Yugoslavia. Sex role > Yugoslavia > History. Collective memory > Yugoslavia > History. War and society > Yugoslavia > History. Yugoslavia > Social conditions.
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Table of 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.