Women’s Internationalism and Yugoslav-Indian Connections
From the Non-Aligned Movement to the UN Decade for Women
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11047359 |
|---|---|
| Authors | C Bonfiglioli (0000-0002-0764-3549, University College Cork, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 49 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 446-461 |
| Publication date | 2021-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Nationalities Papers (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0090-5992 • E-ISSN: 1465-3923 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/nps.2020.11 |
| OpenAlex | W3095166983 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 23 |
This 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
Alliance · Communism · Democracy · Economic history · Internationalism (politics · Political science · Politics · Sociology · European history and politics · Gender Studies · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · History · Law
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Beyond recognition
The regulation of international migration in the Cold War
Criminalization, Medicalization, and Stigmatization
Le genre, un enjeu central de la guerre froide
Gender and Citizenship in Historical and Transnational Perspective
Yugoslavia and the Nonaligned World
No Bargaining Chips, No Spheres of Interest
The Soviet Union's Partnership with India
Research note
Equivocations of Gender
Thinking about Politics and State Power with Vina Mazumdar
Beyond Continents, Colours, and the Cold War
The first UN world conference on women (1975) as a cold war encounter
Feminism and nationalism in the third world
Revisiting the United Nations decade for women
The Women's Movement in Yugoslavia
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Women's Rights in Cold War Europe
DR Vina Mazumdar (1927-2013)
Performing the Political Self
Walking together
Before Bandung
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,5 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2025 (4) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |