"FEMALE GOVERNMENT" IN SERBIA – ONE EXAMPLE OF LOBBYING FOR MORE WOMEN IN POLITICS
"FEMALE GOVERNMENT" IN SERBIA – ONE EXAMPLE OF LOBBYING FOR MORE WOMEN IN POLITICS

Summary/Abstract: "The women’s movement in Serbia during the 1990s had the objective to “create and articulate the energy of resistance”, the resistance of women to the totalitarian regime of Slobodan Milosevic and the wars between countries which were formerly part of Yugoslavia. Marina Blagojević, a sociologist who studied the women’s movement in this period from different perspectives, has pointed out that “it [the resistance movement] could have happened in some other way as well. But it did not. It happened actually through a feminist movement; feminism also represented a common denominator in the resistance to the ‘patriarchal madness’ of the war. The simplicity of this formula was efficient.” (1998:11). Viewed as a whole, feminist and pacifist movements were most often inseparable. These arguments lead us to conclude that female activism in Serbia at the end of the 20th century developed within the frame of political activism" [...]

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