PART III: 1945-1990 Women in Socialism – From Accelerated Emancipation to Accelerated Re-Patriarchalisation
PART III: 1945-1990 Women in Socialism – From Accelerated Emancipation to Accelerated Re-Patriarchalisation

Author(s): Bojana Đokanović, Ivana Dračo, Zlatan Delić
Subject(s): Politics, Gender Studies, Civil Society, Post-War period (1950 - 1989)
Published by: Sarajevo Open Centre
Keywords: women; public life; BiH; 1945-1990; Socialism; emancipation; re-patriarchalisation; SFRJ; Yugoslavia;
Summary/Abstract: This chapter provides a contextual overview of social, economic, political and cultural circumstances and daily life in the Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (SRBiH), as part of the Socialist Federative Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRJ), upon completion of World War II until the end of the 1980s, with a special emphasis on women’s issues and the position of women. Attention will be paid to early socialist efforts and legislative measures aimed at ensuring gender equality and women’s emancipation, and to overall social progress during the socialist era. Positive and negative implications of this progress will be analysed from a feminist perspective: what did women yearn for, what did they strive for, hope for and fight for?; did they manage to achieve equality with men during the period of brotherhood and unity? – these are some of the issues that will receive special attention. As the issue of women’s education was of particular importance in this period, special attention will be paid to this topic and to women’s contribution to science. An overview of conditions in culture and art, particularly literature, painting, theatre and film, will be provided by presenting some women’s works in these fields. This chapter mentions only some of the women who were distinguished for their work, efforts and achievements during the socialist period in BiH.

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