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Yugoslav Women’s Movement and “The Happiness to the World”

This analysis focuses on the ways in which the interwar Yugoslav women’s movement contributed to national and international political processes of that time, and it divides into two parts. The first deals with the national efforts of the Yugoslav women’s umbrella alliance and its endorsement of the concepts of Yugoslavia and a Yugoslav nation. The second analyses the international activities of Yugoslav women’s organisations on a global and regional level. It investigates the ways that women’s co-operation was used to promote peaceful solutions to regional and international conflicts. However, the national and international women’s movement was a social product of its time. Although promoting pacifism and transnational concepts, in many ways it also faced, mirrored, and sometimes perpetuated contemporary social and national conflicts and prejudices.

interwar, Yugoslavia, women´s movement, Balkan, Slavic

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