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Feminističke nevolje s Balkanom
Feminist troubles with the Balkans

Author(s): Rada Drezgić, Dubravka Žarkov
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Sociološko naučno društvo Srbije
Keywords: feminism; postsocialism; Balkans; balkanism; war; masculinity; femininity;

Summary/Abstract: The paper analyses writings of Slavenka Drakulić and certain number of other feminist writers from ex-Yugoslavia aiming to answer to the following questions: first, how much and in what way the discourses on ex-Yugoslavia, Balkans, (post)socialism, nationalism and war have been produced by local feminists and/or imported from the West; second, have these discourses been overlapping with local feminist discourses about masculinity and femininity and how.

  • Issue Year: 47/2005
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 289-306
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Serbian