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- Title
Moterys Lietuvių fronto bičiulių organizacijoje.
- Authors
STRUMICKIENĖ, Ilona
- Abstract
This paper presents the status of women in one of the most active post-World-War-II Lithuanian émigré organizations, the Friends of the Lithuanian Front (Lietuvių fronto bičiuliai, LFB, in Lithuanian). Its members were Catholics who kept alive the traditions of the Lithuanian resistance to the Soviet and Nazi occupations and as emigrants to the West fostered the preservation of Lithuanian identity abroad and organized activities on behalf of restoring Lithuanian independence. The paper focuses on the functions that women performed in the organization and discusses the reasons why in the LFB, as in many other Lithuanian émigré organizations, it was the men who were mainly the leaders. The paper also reviews changes in the role of women and presents brief biographies of LFB's most active women.
- Publication
Oikos: Lithuanian Migration & Diaspora Studies, 2017, Vol 23, Issue 1/2, p137
- ISSN
1822-5152
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7220/2351-6561.23-24.7