РАТ И ПИТАЊЕ НАСЛЕЂА СРПСКОГ НАРОДНОГ ЖЕНСКОГ САВЕЗА НА ОСНИВАЧКОМ КОНГРЕСУ НАРОДНОГ ЖЕНСКОГ САВЕЗА СХС 1919. ГОДИНЕ
WAR AND THE QUESTION OF HERITAGE OF THE SERBIAN NATIONAL WOMEN’S UNION AT THE FOUNDING CONGRESS OF THE NATIONAL WOMEN’S UNION OF SERBS, CROATS AND SLOVENES IN 1919

Summary/Abstract: The paper examines the influence of heritage of the Serbian National Women’s Union on the establishment of the National Women’s Union of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes in 1919, its objectives, structure, humanitarian and emancipatory capacity and the process of shaping the gender-based ideology of Yugoslavism. Just after the First World War, this organisation gathered the civic part of the female movement in the new state. War experiences and contributions of women from Serbia significantly differed from the background experiences of women from other parts of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. The analysis of the strategy and policies advocated by the leading representatives of the Serbian Union at the Founding Congress in Belgrade in 1919 suggests that they relied on multiple legitimacies of the state – victors in the war, sacrifices and suffering of the people, great contributions of women from Serbia to the war victory, and the long tradition of pre-war female joint humanitarian and emancipatory efforts in the Kingdom of Serbia.

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