Description

VARIOUS AUTHORS, France MIHELIČ (1907-1998), illustrator.

[2nd Congress of the Slovenian Anti-Fascist Women Association, Ljubljana 1945]

Ljubljana: Blasnik – Universitetna tiskarna 1945.

The stories and illustrations by various famous female and male authors glorify women, which participated in defeating the Fascism, and puts them on the same level as male soldiers. They embrace female fighters, nurses and strong, elderly mothers, who waited at home and took care of the households and farms. This Yugoslav Partisan attitude, that encouraged women to participate in the war was a contrast to the Fascist mentality, that defended women’s traditional role of supporting their men by waiting for them at home.

The artwork represents a partisan woman, working as a nurse, a burned home, wounded soldier, a tree, “Our Woman”, being a synonym for a strong peasant woman, graves in the forest, abandoned home and a sleeping child.

Worldcat does not list any institutional examples outside Slovenian libraries.

References: OCLC 442695906.