Feminizmi: izvori utopijskih energija
Feminisms: The Sources of Utopian Energies

Summary/Abstract: Some books may present a timely incentive for opening up key questions, and later they may serve as points of departure in the debates which can follow from them. In this context a book, edited over thirty years ago by Vukašin Pavlović, Renewal of Utopian Energies, is a framework for reviewing some social movements such as: the peace movement, the feminist and the ecology movements, a common denominator being that three decades ago they are all, in the said publication, highlighted as a source for reviving utopian energies. This text will briefly presents an overview of the main directions of only one of those social movements – feminism – and the pathways it chose to take, first in Yugoslavia and later in Serbia. These directions point towards and, as pathways, led to: the struggle against gender based violence; antinationalist and anti-war activism; and finally, towards establishing comprehensive feminist educational programs, i.e. women’s studies. The text will also address some key issues in feminism, through the lenses of a concrete example of the Women’s Studies Center, the issue here being the potential of survival of utopian energies within the process of institution building.

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