Professional paper
Was the Emancipation of Women in Koprivnica and Podravina Resulted by Second World War? A Survey of Female Activities and Political Propaganda Mentioned in Local Newspaper and Published Studies
Maja Blažek
; Koprivnica Secondary School, Koprivnica, Croatia
Abstract
When choosing a concept of the emantipation of women as a main perspective of a research, this paper analizes activities of women in Koprivnica and it’s region during the Second World War which are mostly mentioned in publicated works on similar subject and newspapers in Koprivnica of that time. Process of emantipation has been observed by analizing dvelopement of political consiencesness, existance of a woman in public sphere and her inrolement in wartime activities, all questioned from diferent aspect of morality. This shows that interpretation of a woman as a political subject depended on ideological purpose of political fractions, and also that the highest positions in Yugoslav People’s Liberation War were mostly reserved for men. Nevertheless, people of that time lived in traditional society and changes in mentality had to be made at first to continue process of emantipation. Taken from that point of wiew, Myth of Equality has it’s logical meaning.
Keywords
Emantipation; Koprivnica; Podravina; Woman; Yugoslav People«s Liberation War; Partisan Myth of Equality; Independent State of Croatia; Politics; Morality; Croatian Peasant Party; Tradition
Hrčak ID:
78156
URI
Publication date:
1.12.2007.
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