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Žena danas (1936–40; 1943–44; 1945–53) and Mitra Mitrović: The Policies of (Ghost) Editorship, Feminism, and Antifascism

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Abstract

This article offers an innovative contribution to previous and current reconstructions of the dialectics of the national and women’s questions in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. More precisely, it aims to open questions about local and global dis/continuities both between and within Yugoslav left feminism, antifascism, and communism in the period immediately before, during, and after the Second World War (1936–53). Focusing on the magazine Žena danas [Woman Today] (1936–40; 1943–44; 1945–81), along with the bio-bibliography of one of its key founders, collaborators, and editors, Mitra Mitrović (1912–2001), the article engages with recent reconceptualizations of women’s collective engagement in social and cultural movements, as well as historiographical syntheses on global left feminism. Our approach combines three methodological frameworks: 1) periodical studies and the study of editorship in national and European contexts, on which we build to explore the notion of ‘ghost editorship’; 2) gender studies, including the conceptualization of ‘women as a group’, and 3) the history of communism, antifascism, and left feminism in the interwar period, primarily between 1936 and 1953, in Yugoslavia and beyond.

Keywords: Žena danas, Mitra Mitrović, women periodical editors, Kingdom of SCS/Yugoslavia, feminism, antifascism, communism, ghost editorship

How to Cite:

Barać, S. & Simić, Z., (2025) “Žena danas (1936–40; 1943–44; 1945–53) and Mitra Mitrović: The Policies of (Ghost) Editorship, Feminism, and Antifascism”, Journal of European Periodical Studies 9(2), 30–50. doi: https://doi.org/10.21825/jeps.87021