Women's Antifascist Front of Macedonia
- Women's Antifascist Front of Macedonia
The Women's Antifascist Front of Macedonia ( _mk. Антифашистички Фронт на Жените на Македонија, transliterated "Antifašistički Front na Ženite na Makedonija" (literally "Antifascist Front for the Women of Macedonia") abbreviated AFŽ (АФЖ)) was a World War II-era feminist movement in Macedonia and the predecessor to several present-day feminist organisations in the Republic of Macedonia. It was formed in 1942, along with other Women's Antifascist Fronts in Yugoslavia.
The most prominent figure in the movement was Veselinka Malinska, a decorated National Liberation War of Macedonia veteran and ASNOM participant whose father partook in the Ilinden Uprising of 1903. [de Haan, F. Daskalova, K. Loutfi, A. (2006). "A Biographical Dictionary of Women's Movements and Feminisms in Central, Eastern and Southern Europe: 19th and 20th Centuries". Central European University Press. pp. 296-300. ISBN 978-963-7326-39-4. Google Book Search. Retrieved on July 8, 2008.] The movement was closely affiliated to the Greek Civil War organisation, the National Liberation Front which had a substantial amount of female partisans.
The AFŽ's dominant goal was to improve schooling for females and increase their literacy rate, as a majority of illiterates at the time were women. [Trouton, R. (1952). "Peasant Renaissance in Yugoslavia, 1900-1950: A Study of the Development of Yugoslav Peasant Society as Affected by Education". Routledge. p. 283. ISBN 0415176123. Google Book Search. Retrieved on July 8, 2008.] The organisation, much like their allies, the National Liberation Front and the National Liberation Youth Association in Greek Macedonia, were labelled 'bandits' by the Greek government following World War II. ["The Aegean part of Macedonia after the Balkan Wars". Council for Research into South-Eastern Europe of the Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts. 1996.]
ee also
*Feminism
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* [http://www.president.gov.mk/info_e.asp?SectionID=11&InfoID=550 President Branko Crvenkovski is patron of the manifestation marking the 60th anniversary of the Women’s Antifascist Front of Macedonia]
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