Coal and Makeup. Narratives about Yugoslav Socialist Women-Workers on Offer to Post-Transitional Memory

Sa？etak Research in former socialist countries, including Croatia, has shown that women’s opinions and perspectives on their past in the former political system are more positive than men’s. Accordingly, women evaluate their current situation as being worse than it was in "the former communist system", and they are more likely to support left-wing political parties. A reading of the three Yugoslav women’s magazines from 1946 to 1975 reveals the range of representations and creations of working women, suggesting possible references to contemporary nostalgic and/or critical testimonies