ABSTRACT
A marked gap in modern European historiography is still women's history, or gendered historiography. The closest comparable case of massive misogyny is certainly the culpabilization of women in former socialist countries of the Soviet bloc for their share in supporting communism. Misogyny seems to be an inevitable component of the dominant public discourse during social crisis and war and it is richly registered in the media and the popular culture. In Croatia, Serbia, and much less in Slovenia, the new World War II narratives have been directly used to accommodate, familiarize, and stereotype the gender relations in the more recent war that accompanied and followed the decomposition of Yugoslavia. In a situation in which state funding was both impossible and unwanted, and the only flow of resources was coming from the outside, feminist institutional ghettoization was the most important part of the survival-package.
