Gender and World War II in the Yugoslav Media

1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-60542-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 230 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 503 g

Reihe: Routledge Histories of Central and Eastern Europe

This book presents an analysis of the cultural memory of women’s participation in the Yugoslav People’s Liberation Struggle (1941–1945), with a particular focus on the figure of the female soldier. It examines how this subject was treated in socialist Yugoslavia’s popular printed press and how it contributed to the creation of the figure of the Yugoslav New Woman.

By examining four popular magazines, this volume aims to reveal the variety of understandings of women’s unprecedented level of wartime engagement and its relevance in creating the conditions for the emergence and development of the New Woman in socialist Yugoslavia. The book delves into the roles and societal impact of these women as portrayed in the printed press from the end of World War II until the watershed moment of socialist Yugoslavia’s history: the death of Josip Broz Tito in 1980.

This book is aimed at students, scholars, and researchers interested in women's and gender history in state socialist countries. Its examination of print magazines, an understudied aspect of Yugoslav media, will also be of interest to media and communication scholars.

Zielgruppe

Academic

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jelusic, Iva

Jelušic, Iva

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1  1. Introduction  2. Yugoslav Media in Theory and Practice — A Brief Overview  Part 2  Introduction to Part 2: The Foundations of the Women’s Press  3. Žena u borbi: Establishing the Canon of Women’s Emancipation  4. Svijet: From Fashion to Emancipation  Part 3  Introduction to Part 3: In the Other Women’s Press  5. Arena: Working the War, Forgetting the Emancipation  6. Start: Emancipation in the Nude.  Concluding Remarks

Über Autor(innen)

Iva Jelušic is a historian interested in social history, women’s and gender history, the history of feminism in the state socialist countries of Central and Eastern Europe, and the politics of the past and the development of the cultural memory of World War II in Yugoslavia.