page_title: Yugoslav Partisans
section_title: Women
hierarchical_section_title: Yugoslav Partisans / Women
caption_attribution_description: English: Kozarčanka ("Woman from Kozara"), a World War II photograph that became iconic in Socialist Yugoslavia. The subject of the portrait is a Yugoslav Partisan, Milja Marin (née Toroman), an ethnic Serb woman from a village at the foot of Mount Kozara in northern Bosnia. Српски / srpski: Фотографија Козарчанка. Портрет партизанке Миље Марин рођ. Тороман из Поткозарја.
context_page_description: The Yugoslav Partisans, or the National Liberation Army, officially the National Liberation Army and Partisan Detachments of Yugoslavia, was the Communist-led resistance to the Axis powers in occupied Yugoslavia during World War II.
  It is considered to be Europe's most effective anti-Axis resistance movement during World War II, often compared to the Polish resistance movement, albeit the latter was a mostly non-communist autonomous movement. The resistance was led by the Communist Party of Yugoslavia. Its commander was Marshal Josip Broz Tito.
context_section_description: The Yugoslav Partisans mobilized many women. The Yugoslav National Liberation Movement claimed 6,000,000 civilian supporters; its two million women formed the Antifascist Front of Women (AFŽ), in which the revolutionary coexisted with the traditional. The AFŽ managed schools, hospitals and even local governments.  About 100,000 women served with 600,000 men in Tito's Yugoslav National Liberation Army. It stressed its dedication to women's rights and gender equality and used the imagery of traditional folklore heroines to attract and legitimize the partizanka (Partisan Woman).  After the war, women returned to traditional gender roles, but Yugoslavia is unique as its historians paid extensive attention to women's roles in the resistance, until the country broke up in the 1990s. Then the memory of the women soldiers faded away.
caption: Kozarčanka by Žorž Skrigin (winter 1943–44)
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