„What Do Others Think of Me?“: Opposition to Feminis Menopause and the Public Sphere in Post-Socialist Context Cover Image

„Šta drugi misle o meni?“: protivljenje feminizmu, menopauza i javnost u post-socijalističkom kontekstu
„What Do Others Think of Me?“: Opposition to Feminis Menopause and the Public Sphere in Post-Socialist Context

Author(s): Čarna Brković
Subject(s): Gender Studies
Published by: Centar za ženske studije & Centar za studije roda i politike, Fakultet političkih nauka, Beograd
Keywords: public sphere; private/public; menopause; opposition to feminism

Summary/Abstract: During the early 1990s, the East/West feminist debate pointed out that feminist concepts created as a response to the context of the ’Western’ states cannot be applied to the ’Eastern-European’ context in a simple way. Opposition to feminism present in eastern and south-eastern European countries can be used to provoke re-thinking and contextualisation of basic political concepts, such as the ’public’. Ethnographic sketch of the talk about menopause in a town on the border between Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Serbia, points to one kind of the ’informal’ public, and to the interconnectedness of the ’private’ with official medical recommendations and practices.

  • Issue Year: 2010
  • Issue No: 14
  • Page Range: 3-23
  • Page Count: 21
  • Language: Serbian