Women's internationalism and Yugoslav-Indian connections: From the Non-Aligned Movement to the UN Decade for Women

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dc.contributor.authorBonfiglioli, Chiara
dc.date.accessioned2021-05-31T11:41:53Z
dc.date.available2021-05-31T11:41:53Z
dc.date.issued2020-10-28
dc.date.updated2021-05-31T11:33:06Z
dc.description.abstractThis article addresses women’s cross-border internationalist connections within the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), focusing on the exchanges between women’s organizations in socialist Yugoslavia and the Global South during the 1950s and 1960s, as well as during the UN Decade for Women (1975–1985). As a result of the Soviet-Yugoslav split, Yugoslavia was expelled from the Women’s International Democratic Federation (WIDF), the main organization federating antifascist, communist, and socialist women, in 1949. To overcome international isolation, Yugoslav representatives established their own bilateral connections with women’s organizations internationally, particularly in the Global South. Throughout the Cold War, the main figure behind women’s internationalism in Yugoslavia was Vida Tomšič (1913–1998), a former partisan and leading politician, trained as a lawyer, who had a fundamental role both in nonaligned and UN settings. In this article, I further analyze Vida Tomšič’s visits to India, and examine her correspondence with Indian scholar and Women’s Studies pioneer Vina Mazumdar (1927–2013). The exchanges between Vina and Vida, as they amicably addressed each other, exemplify the significance of the alliance between activists from socialist countries and activists from the Global South during the UN Decade for Women.en
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dc.identifier.citationBonfiglioli, C. (2020) 'Women's internationalism and Yugoslav-Indian connections: From the Non-Aligned Movement to the UN Decade for Women', Nationalities Papers, 49(3), pp. 446-461. doi: 10.1017/nps.2020.11en
dc.identifier.doi10.1017/nps.2020.11en
dc.identifier.eissn1465-3923
dc.identifier.endpage461en
dc.identifier.issn0090-5992
dc.identifier.issued3en
dc.identifier.journaltitleNationalities Papersen
dc.identifier.startpage446en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/11415
dc.identifier.volume49en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherCambridge University Pressen
dc.rights© 2020, Association for the Study of Nationalities. Published by Cambridge University Press. This material is free to view and download for personal use only. Not for re-distribution, re-sale or use in derivative works.en
dc.subjectIndiaen
dc.subjectNon-Aligned Movementen
dc.subjectUN Decade for Womenen
dc.subjectWomen's movementsen
dc.subjectYugoslaviaen
dc.titleWomen's internationalism and Yugoslav-Indian connections: From the Non-Aligned Movement to the UN Decade for Womenen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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