Feminist approaches to history point to the importance and transformative potential of marginalized actions and experiences of women beyond dominant narratives. The contribution of anthropology to these approaches is reflected in the deconstruction of the universal conception of the notion of woman and patriarchy through the importance of context, partial perspective and the position of viewing reality, that is, politics of location and ethnographies of the particular. Guided by this, this paper aims to explore the invisible relationship and emancipatory actions of the Women’s Anti-Fascist Front (AFŽ). Marked by the Yugoslav, socialist narrative, which took on new contradictions with the change of the system in the 1990s, we witness a kind of oblivion of that period and the mass socialist organization of women. To cover the specific context and ways of action of AFŽ women at a local level, archival records of the organization of women in the Zadar region during the National Liberation Struggle (1943-1945) and the activities of the AFŽ Zadar City Board (1945-1953) were analyzed. The interpretation of archival records contextualizes how women act and resist within the existing socio-political framework. The complex relationship of patriarchal patterns and emancipatory practices is analyzed through the professionalization of the sphere of reproductive work and the collectivization of care as well as through the limitations these women encountered through their work. It seeks to contribute to a forgotten part of history that official histories ignore as well as to the existing research on this topic.