At the beginning of the war in the former Yugoslavia, when the federal army tried to occupy Slovenia, demonstrations were made by the mothers of mobilized soldiers. Immediately they were called traitors and these denunciations continued throughout the war. This is a typical social exorcism of evil through women, so well known in the past when women were burned and hanged for being suspected witches. Instrumentalization is when women in emergency situations, such as war, are used in the place of men for men's goals, for example working in a factory, but then get kicked out when men return from war, even if they have been doing the jobs better than men. In other words, when the free space for women no longer exist.
Women have to become the angels of their homes who take on all family duties.
But they have also have to take on traditionally male jobs such as engineers, workers, miners and doctors while men are presumably saving the world. Many women accept this duality eagerly because they get the public space, which is usually denied to them in peacetime. In this role, women are used as instruments to reach men's goals. Every day men from the villages would take up their arms and go to the frontline to shoot, while the women would presumably stay at home. Food was only available through the black market common to the warring parties.