Ivan Simić

Supervisors: Dr Bojan Aleksov and Professor Susan Morrissey

Email: i.simic.12@ucl.ac.uk

Present status: PhD candidate

Working title of thesis: Soviet Influences on Yugoslav Gender Policies 1945-1955

Research: This research project aims to analyse how Yugoslav gender roles were constructed after the war on the level of both abstract models and living practices. It will show how an ideal woman and man were created in a socialist reality, and how these new gender roles performed in official discourses and state practices. This project looks at the complex relationship between Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union and brings the question of gender to the fore, arguing that Soviet influences were of crucial importance in construction of Yugoslav gender roles. At the same time it considers unique Yugoslav experience in reshaping the society and Yugoslav interpretations of the classical Marxism.