Labour vs. bourgeoisie women’s movement in Serbia and Yugoslavia 1910–1940 Cover Image

RADNIČKI VS. GRAĐANSKI ŽENSKI POKRET U SRBIJI I JUGOSLAVIJI 1910-1940.
Labour vs. bourgeoisie women’s movement in Serbia and Yugoslavia 1910–1940

Author(s): Svetlana Stefanovic
Subject(s): Gender Studies, Economic development, Interwar Period (1920 - 1939), Sociology of Politics
Published by: Институт за етнологију и антропологију
Keywords: Women’s movement; labour movement and women’s equality; Kingdom of Serbia/S.C.S. (Yugoslavia); women’s question

Summary/Abstract: In the text, we analyse what “the women’s question” meant on the eve of World War I, that is, in the interwar period, based on journals, memoirs and archival material. We will attempt to answer the following questions – what are the similarities and the differences between European and Serbian/Yugoslav activists? How did the political situation in Serbia prior to World War I, that is, the political climate in the interwar period in the Kingdom of S.C.S./Yugoslavia influence the women’s movement in general? How did the split between socialist and communist factions of the labour movement influence their female members? What were the consequences of the Obznana (Proclamation) decree (1920) and the Law on the Protection of Public Safety and State Order (1921) on the activities of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia and its female members? What did the Fifth Conference of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia (1940) mean for the women’s movement?

  • Issue Year: 20/2020
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 55-72
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Serbian