The Feminist Challenge to the Socialist State in Yugoslavia (Genders and Sexualities in History)

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?-- Provided by publisher 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. The 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 Front Matter ....Pages i-xxii Introduction (Zsófia Lóránd)....Pages 1-27 “Neither Class, nor Nature”—(Re)Turning to Feminism in the Social Sciences and Humanities (Zsófia Lóránd)....Pages 29-83 Feminist Dissent in Literature and Art: Sisterhood, Motherhood and the Body (Zsófia Lóránd)....Pages 85-135 Feminism in the Popular Mass Media (Zsófia Lóránd)....Pages 137-169 Reorganising Theory: From Kitchen Tables to the Streets, from Theory to Activism (Zsófia Lóránd)....Pages 171-222 Conclusion (Zsófia Lóránd)....Pages 223-230 Back Matter ....Pages 231-270