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ΕΛΑΣ (Εθνικός Λαϊλός Απελευθερωτικός Στρατός), the Greek People's Liberation Army the military arm of the left-wing National Liberation Front (ΕΑΜ ) during the period of the Greek Resistance until February 1945.
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After receiving a promotion in ELAS, she wrote: 'At last, for I had coped with being treated like the other girls for two months.
Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity 2008
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Relatively few entered ELAS, but the 'professionalisation' of women's role in ELAS gave it a veneer of added legitimacy, which attracted middle-class girls like Titika Panayiotidou, second-lieutenant of the 13thRegiment of ELAS.
Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity 2008
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However, the organisation and management of women in ELAS echoed tradition and established social norms, which echoed the traditional family power structure.
Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity 2008
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Titika Panayiotidou-Geldi (1991: 17) writes that as a soldier in ELAS, fighting for national liberation, she felt like she was '... the total embodiment of the people and the nation with its rich patriotic heritage'.
Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity 2008
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Many had fought in ELAS and were promoted to commanders and political commissioners, middle - and higher-ranking cadres of the DSE. 14
Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity 2008
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30The partisan heartland had shifted from Roumeli to Macedonia when women's involvement in ELAS was formalised in 1944.
Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity 2008
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29This informal phase of women's involvement in ELAS was unpopular amongst ELAS men, with the odd exceptions of exceptional military competence, such as in the cases of Thiella and Koula Danou.
Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity 2008
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Resistance doctrine insisted on the equality of the sexes, granted them voting rights, and encouraged them to some degree to become involved in ELAS.
Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity 2008
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This dynamic later gave way to the formation of special women's platoons (gynaikeies dimoiries) within ELAS.
Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity 2008
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There was one group, however, called ELAS, which was the military wing of an organisation called the EAM, which in turn was controlled by a committee in Athens whose members belonged to the KKE.
Captain Corelli's Mandolin De Bernieres, Louis 2003
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