Gender Perspectives on Political Identities in Yugoslavia
Gender Perspectives on Political Identities in Yugoslavia

Author(s): Gordana Daša Duhaček
Subject(s): Gender Studies, Politics and Identity
Published by: Centar za ženske studije & Centar za studije roda i politike, Fakultet političkih nauka, Beograd
Summary/Abstract: THIS TEXT TESTIFIES TO SOME OF THE EARLIEST ALBEIT CONTINUOUS RESISTANCES WHICH WOMEN IN THE BALKANS HAVE BEEN ORGANIZING IN ITS MOST RECENT HISTORY. USING THEORIES OF NATIONALISM AND FORMATION OF NATION STATES, AGAINST THE BACKDROP OF THE WARS FOUGHT IN THE BALKANS FROM 1991 TO 1999, AND WITH A VIEW TO SERBIA - THE THESIS OF THE TEXT IS THAT WOMEN AND FEMINIST RESISTERS FORGED A NEW APPROACH TO CITIZENSHIP: IN ORDER TO CONFRONT THE POLICIES OF EVIL OF THEIR RESPECTIVE NEWLY FORMED NATION STATES AND DEMAND THEIR ACCOUNTABILITY, THEY ALSO HAD TAKE ON THE BURDEN OF BELONGING TO THE CITIZENSHIP OF THESE STATES.

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