The demographic catastrophes of the two World Wars, together with the desire for post-war “cultural demobilization” and a return to “normal conditions”, stimulated a series of different initiatives that emphasized the importance of charity and social work in the public discourse, especially in the field of protecting mothers and children and specifically widows and orphans. Before World War II, many of these initiatives were advocated and implemented by Slovenian women's associations and some of their prominent representatives, e.g. Alojzija Štebi, who also worked in state structures for social welfare. Some of the changes that these individuals advocated even before the war were implemented immediately after 1945, when the Women's Anti-Fascist Front was also significantly involved in this type of work, and a significant number of its members were also employed in prominent positions within the Ministry of social policy. Although at the ideological level, the post-war agents certainly at least to some extent took into account the guidelines outlined by feminists before the war, as many of them were already active in the women's movement before the war, in their texts they themselves mainly emphasized the fracture in the field of social politics with conditions in the period before the revolution.
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