Vida Tomšič
Vida Tomšič | |
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President of the People's Assembly of SR Slovenia | |
In office 1962–1963 | |
Prime Minister | Viktor Avbelj |
Preceded by | Miha Marinko |
Succeeded by | Ivan Maček |
Personal details | |
Born | 26 June 1913 Ljubljana, Austria-Hungary |
Died | 10 December 1998 (aged 85) Ljubljana, Slovenia |
Political party | League of Communists |
Vida Tomšič née Bernot (26 June 1913 – 10 December 1998) was a
Vida Tomšić became an antifascist activist in the interwar period. She was arrested and tortured by the occupation forces during the war, and her husband Tone Tomšić was executed. After the war she acting as a leader of the Women's Antifascist Front of Yugoslavia (AFŽ).[1]
She was born and died in Ljubljana and held many government positions in Slovenia and Yugoslavia during her long career.[2]
Tomšič was a
Life and work
Vida Tomšič was born in the family of a schoolteacher living in Ljubljana during the waning years of the
During the Italian occupation in 1941, Vida Tomšič used the name Mary Singer and gave birth to a son, but by December of that year both Tone and Vida Tomšič were arrested for their illegal political activities in support of the Communist Party. An Italian military tribunal sentenced Tone Tomšič to death, and Vida Tomšič to 25 years in jail. Separated from her son, Vida Tomšič was incarcerated in a string of Italian prisons until the fall of Italy, when she founded one of the first overseas partisan brigades.[5]
Vida Tomšič eventually returned to Yugoslavia and settled in Slovenia, where she was elected to the
In international relations
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Vida Tomšič often represented Yugoslavia on the international stage, both in bilateral diplomatic relations and within the framework of the
References
- ^ "Women's emancipation in socialist Yugoslavia | CITSEE.eu". www.citsee.eu. 24 October 2012.
- ^ Slovenska biografija: http://www.slovenska-biografija.si/oseba/sbi712560/
- ^ Chiara Bonfigioli, "Feminist Translations in a Socialist Context: The Case of Yugoslavia," Gender & History, Vol. 30, No. 1, March 2018: 240-254, page 243
- ISBN 9783412322052.
- ^ a b "Vida Tomšič". Slovenska Biografija. Retrieved 11 March 2016.
- ^ a b Mateja Jeraj, “Vida Tomšič” in Francisca de Haan, Krasimira Daskalova, Anna Loutfi (eds), A Biographical Dictionary of Women's Movements and Feminisms: Central, Eastern and South Eastern Europe, 19th and 20th Centuries. Budapest: Central European University Press, 2006: 575-579
- ISBN 978-0-415-53575-5.
- ^ The Legacy of INSTRAW in Promoting the Rights of Women: A Historical Record of the Institute between 1976 and 2010. UN Women's Training Center
- ISBN 9780253346971.
Further reading
- Mateja Jeraj, “Vida Tomšič” in Francisca de Haan, Krasimira Daskalova, Anna Loutfi (eds), A Biographical Dictionary of Women's Movements and Feminisms: Central, Eastern and South Eastern Europe, 19th and 20th Centuries. Budapest: Central European University Press, 2006: 575-579
- Chiara Bonfiglioli, Revolutionary networks. Women’s political and social activism in Cold War Italy and Yugoslavia (1945-1957), Dissertation filed at the University of Utrecht,
- Chiara Bonfiglioli, "On Vida Tomšič, Marxist Feminism, and Agency," in Forum - Ten Years After: Communism and Feminism Revisited, edited by Francisca de Haan, Aspasia: The International Yearbook of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern European Women's and Gender History, Volume 10, Issue 1, 2016: 145-151. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3167/asp.2016.100107