Representing Women’s Non-Aligned Encounters: A View from Yugoslavia

In this chapter, I explore the beginning of Non-Aligned connections by looking at official representations of encounters with African and Asian women between the mid-1950s and the mid-1960s, the first intensive period of Non-Aligned internationalist exchanges. This paper is based on the collection of the monthly periodical Žena u Borbi [Woman in the Struggle], renamed Žena [Woman] in 1957 and published by the Croatian branch of the Yugoslav state socialist women’s organization (SŽD or Union of Women’s Societies, 1953-1961, and KDAŽ or Conference for the Social Activity of Women from 1961 onwards).