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Feminist Alliance (FA—Feministička Alijansa) in 1923 (renamed Women's Movements' Alliance or AŽP—Alijansa ženskih pokreta/Alijansa ženskih pokretov in 1926). In the late 1920s however professional middle class feminists from the FA came to dominate the Yugoslav Women's Alliance, which resulted in
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The organization worked for the introduction of women's suffrage. Women's suffrage had been promised when
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a closer collaboration between the
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