The present thesis deals with the development of the feminist thought in the Socialist federative republic of Yugoslavia on the basis of Foucault's genealogical approach. In line with the genealogical approach we understand our object of analysis as entrenched in its own conditions of possibilitiy of emergence. These are introduced to the thesis through the analysis of women's roles in the post-war socialist-buidling dispositive, where women's organising in the context of Antifascist Women's Front represents our main focus, and the analysis of women's roles in the Yugoslav market-socialism dispositive, where female representations in Yugoslav popular culture represent our main focus. Through the analysis of female representations in Yugoslav popular culture, we identify two parallel forms of female representations, which we interpret as referential subjects of the two approaches to women's question – self-management and neofeminist approach. In the problematisation of the mainstream interpretations of the development of Yugoslav feminist thought, we recognise the general vs. particular debate as a formative element of both self-management and neofeminist approach to women's question. Through the analysis of the interpretations of (dis)continuites of the formative period, we recognise the neofeminist approach as a rupture in the tradition of women's organising in the context of antifascist struggle.
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