CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2012
| Author | Markovinovic, Mirjana |
|---|---|
| Title | Negotiating Scholarship and Activism: An Analysis of Croatian Feminists' Narratives |
| Summary | This study was designed to explore how feminist scholars negotiate scholarship and activism in contemporary Croatia. I have conducted semistructured interviews with seven Croatian feminist scholars that work in Zagreb, at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences and/or at the NGO Women’s Studies Center. Basing my ideas on Allaine Cerwonka’s concept of traveling feminist thought and the analysis of interviewees’ narratives, I argue that the particularity of Croatian context, with the legacy of socialist feminism and the influence of civil society initiatives in post-state socialist period, has produced a type of feminist scholar that resists the “profess ionalization&#x 201d; of feminism that has come under severe criticism in the West. The implication of this case study is that the establishment of independent gender studies at universities in Croatia will be a fascinating story to follow that might provide an optimistic view of the future of academic feminism in general. |
| Supervisor | Helms, Elissa |
| Department | Gender Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2012/markovinovic_mirjana.pdf |
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