CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2007
| Author | Lóránd, Zsófia |
|---|---|
| Title | Feminism as Counterdiscourse in Yugoslavia in Two Different Contexts |
| Summary | The thesis looks at the history of the new feminism in the former Yugoslavia in the 1970s and 1980s and in the new nation states (especially Croatia) during the war. These are also the two main chapters of the thesis, one focusing on the communist times, when the new feminist movement emerged and the other one looking at the wartime period, when the new nation states were created. The two periods mean two completely different ideological environments, while the new feminism was opposed to both of them, always critical towards the two regimes. Since the feminist movement in Yugoslavia was ideologically very diverse and had several strong characters with significant texts and activity, there is special attention paid to three main figures of the period. Two of them, Slavenka Drakulić, journalist and writer, Rada Iveković, a philosopher belonged to the feminist movement, the third one, Dubravka Ugrešić, a writer and literary historian, did not, but her literary work and her commitments in the 1990s make her an important figure for this thesis. Moreover, the three authors were all involved in the so called “witch-trial”, the loudest confrontation between the feminists and the nationalists. Besides the fact that their work became significantly more personal in the wartime period, which they experienced as the loss of their country, the individual cases are also important because the similarities and differences in their work, placed in a broader context, reveal several aspect of the complicity of Yugoslav feminism in the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s. |
| Supervisor | Trencsenyi, Balazs and Lukic, Jasmina |
| Department | History MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2007/lorand_zsofia.pdf |
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