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Women and Yugoslav Partisans: A History of World War II Resistance
Jelena Batinic-
Cover
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Half title
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Title page
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Imprints page
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Contents
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Illustrations
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Note on Translation
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction
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Gender, Revolution, and War in Scholarly Literature
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Sources and Organization
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World War II in the Western Balkans: The Background
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1 “To the People, She Was a Character from Folk Poetry”
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The Partisan Recruitment Strategies
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“Backward” Peoples, “Ignorant” Women, and “The Promise of Gender Equality”
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Invoking the Epics
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Heroines in the Culture of Hero Worship
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Conclusions
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2 The “Organized Women”
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Precursors
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Development of the AFW
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Successes and Failures
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The Charge of Feminism
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Conclusions
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3 The Heroic and the Mundane
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The Party Approves Female Combatants
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The Profile of the Partizanka
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Problems of Integration
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“The Revolution Has No Time for Motherhood”
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Withdrawal of the partizanka
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“Wartime Days Were My Most Beautiful Days”
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Conclusions
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4 The Personal as a Site of Party Intervention
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Personal Life of a Revolutionary: Values and Norms
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Protecting the Honor of the Party: Regulations
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Conclusions
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5 After the War Was Over
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Women's Position in Tito's Yugoslavia
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Remembering the partizanka
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Conclusion
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Conclusion
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Selected Bibliography
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Index
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Published: 2015
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- 9781107091078 (hardcover)
- 9781316118627 (ebook)
- 9781107463073 (paper)