Gender Relations in post-war Social Life: the Example of multi-national Herzegovina
Gender Relations in post-war Social Life: the Example of multi-national Herzegovina

Summary/Abstract: During the war of the 1990s in Bosnia-Herzegovina, neo-patriarchal role ex-pectations regained enormous influence in determining moral modes of social interaction. As a consequence of the glorification of a mythological “national” past, this also holds true for the time after the war, which is the focus of this article. But this is only one side of the coin. While a “return” to the “original” traditions of the past might have been a goal to which national ideologists as-pired, the realities of everyday life, increasingly affected by global economic and cultural processes, are too complex for such a “return” to be realised. Based on empirical research conducted in the Herzegovina region in a Croat, a Bosniac/Muslim and a Serb community respectively, this paper analyses how gender relations have evolved against the background of these antagonistic trends.

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