ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an overview of how the new Yugoslav feminists, as they often referred to themselves at the time, started their activities, and show how these relate to the effects of 1968 in Yugoslavia. It describes 'women's right to choose whether to give birth to children' as 'one of the most important proclamations following the triumph of the socialist revolution'. The issue of violence against women was both a driving force and a major theme of feminism and women's rights groups all over the world in the 1970s and beyond. The institutions and the relative freedom of institutions created the conditions for the formation of the prolific new Yugoslav feminist movement. The most radical and therefore fascinating part of the book from the perspective of the relationship of feminism to state socialism is the historical overview of women's social position in different sociopolitical systems.
