The Feminist Challenge to the Socialist State in Yugoslavia [electronic resource] /
Lóránd, Zsófia.author.
This book tells the story of new Yugoslav feminism in the 1970s and 1980s, reassessing the effects of state socialism on women's emancipation through the lens of the feminist critique. This volume explores the history of the ideas defining a social movement, analysing the major debates and arguments this milieu engaged in from the perspective of the history of political thought, intellectual history and cultural history. Twenty-five years after the end of the Cold War, societies in and scholars of East Central Europe still struggle to sort out the effects of state socialism on gender relations in the region. What could tell us more about the subject than the ideas set out by the only organised and explicitly feminist opposition in the region, who, as academics, artists, writers and activists, criticised the regime and demanded change?
Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. "Neither Class, Nor Nature" - (Re)Turning to Feminism in the Social Sciences and Humanities -- Chapter 3. Feminist Dissent in Literature and Art: Sisterhood, Motherhood and the Body -- Chapter 4. Feminism in the Popular Mass Media -- Chapter 5. Reorganising Theory: From Kitchen Tables to the Streets, from Theory to Activism -- Chapter 6. Conclusion -- Archival Sources -- List of Interviews -- Index.
This book tells the story of new Yugoslav feminism in the 1970s and 1980s, reassessing the effects of state socialism on women's emancipation through the lens of the feminist critique. This volume explores the history of the ideas defining a social movement, analysing the major debates and arguments this milieu engaged in from the perspective of the history of political thought, intellectual history and cultural history. Twenty-five years after the end of the Cold War, societies in and scholars of East Central Europe still struggle to sort out the effects of state socialism on gender relations in the region. What could tell us more about the subject than the ideas set out by the only organised and explicitly feminist opposition in the region, who, as academics, artists, writers and activists, criticised the regime and demanded change?
Russia-History.
Europe, Eastern-History.
Civilization-History.
World politics.
Women.
Social history.
Russian, Soviet, and East European History.
Cultural History.
Political History.
Women's Studies.
Social History.