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Soviet Influences on Postwar Yugoslav Gender Policies

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Authors:
  1. Ivan Simic

    1. Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada

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  • Examines the influence of Soviet policies on gender relations and gender policy in Yugoslavia from 1945-1955
  • Considers the impact on key policies areas including agriculture, labour, immigration, as well as sexual and family relations
  • Contributes to scholarship on gender history, cultural history and Yugoslav history

Part of the book series: Genders and Sexualities in History (GSX)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction

    • Ivan Simic
    Pages 1-19

  3. The Transfer of Soviet Models

    • Ivan Simic
    Pages 21-47

  4. Framing Gender Policies

    • Ivan Simic
    Pages 49-90

  5. ‘Equal but…’—The Impact of Gender on Labour Policies

    • Ivan Simic
    Pages 91-123

  6. The Impact of Collectivisation on Yugoslav Gender Relations

    • Ivan Simic
    Pages 125-154

  7. The Veil Lifting Campaign

    • Ivan Simic
    Pages 155-182

  8. Gender Policies Towards Youth: From Stalinism to the Yugoslav Dilemma

    • Ivan Simic
    Pages 183-217

  9. Conclusions

    • Ivan Simic
    Pages 219-226

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 227-271
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About this book

This book explores Soviet influences on Yugoslav gender policies, examining how Yugoslav communists interpreted, adapted and used Soviet ideas to change Yugoslav society. The book sheds new light on the role of Soviet models in producing Yugoslav family and reproductive laws, and in framing the understandings of gender which affected key policies such as the collectivisation of agriculture, labour policies, policies towards Muslim populations, and policies concerning youth sexuality. Through a gender analysis of all these policies, this book points to the difficulties of applying Soviet solutions in Yugoslavia. Deeply entrenched patriarchal attitudes undermined Yugoslav communists’ ability to challenge gender norms, causing many disputes and struggles within the Communist Party over the meanings and application of Soviet gender models. Yet, Soviet models informed how Yugoslav communists approached gender-related issues for many years, even after the conflict erupted between these two countries.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada

    Ivan Simic

About the author

Ivan Simic is a postdoctoral fellow at Carleton University, Canada. He has taught at UCL and Goldsmiths, University of London and held research fellowships at Yale University and the University of Graz. Previous publications include a contribution to Gender in Twentieth-Century Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union (Palgrave, 2016) as well numerous articles on Yugoslav gender history.

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