Women in the Yugoslav People's Liberation Struggle (1941–1945)

Women participated in the Yugoslav People's Liberation Struggle in numbers unparalleled to previous and the following wars in the region. Women's activism, above all in the Antifascist Front of Women, and the inclusion of women in the Yugoslav Partisan army are the focus of this contribution. By considering these emblematic examples of women's wartime efforts, the extreme violence they faced in large part because of their active participation in warfare, and their (mis)treatment in practices of remembrance, this text emphasizes the continuing necessity for feminist scholarship to recognize and preserve the achievements of past women's struggles.