The neo-feminist movement was formed as a critique of dominant policies and practices by reading predominantly Anglo–American feminist texts, which provided an insight into women's position within Yugoslav society. Therefore, the movement strove to reveal and systematically eliminate gender discrimination in those areas that remained unaddressed and unresolved in the first wave of the women's movement. For classical Marxists, the women's issue was part of the workers' problem. The SFRY drawing on the classical Marxist tradition was supposed to eliminate all discrimination with the new constitution. On the territory of the Socialist Republic of Slovenia, together with new social movements, neo-feminism publicly discussed pressing issues and thus opened up the public space, and practised democratic elements, which were followed by the independence of Slovenia and the transition to a new democratic political system.
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