CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2015
| Author | Lóránd, Zsófia |
|---|---|
| Title | Learning a Feminist Language: The Intellectual History of Feminism in Yugoslavia in the 1970s and 1980s |
| Summary | This work focuses on the (re)appearance of feminist thought and feminist activism in Yugoslavia in the 1970s and 1980s. It was a group of mostly young women in the mid-1970s at the universities in Zagreb and Ljubljana and the students’ cultural centres in Belgrade and Ljubljana who began reading and writing about feminism. Their group (in fact, three groups in the three cities) was called Žena i društvo [Woman and society] and their aim was to reconsider the state-declared emancipation of women. Starting with publications in the field of the humanities and social sciences and with investigating feminist issues in literary and art works, the Žena i društvo groups slowly introduced feminist matters into the popular mass media and eventually turned to activism. There is a strong interference between the language they create through the reading of theories, social science and humanities research, art and literature and their activism, language creating practice and practice creating discourse. “Practice” even turns into semi-institutions by the late 1980s in the form of SOS helplines and the first shelters for women and children victims of domestic and gender based violence. Looking at the role of new Yugoslav feminism vis-à-vis the state and its oppositions, my claim is that through rereading concepts and meanings, integrating ideologies and theories from “Western” feminisms and through transfer creating their own version, new Yugoslav feminism is at the same time cooperating with the state and criticising it. In the four chapters of this dissertation, I look at these different attitudes and strategies in four fields or mediums: the humanities and social sciences, arts and literature, popular mass media and activism. |
| Supervisor | Trencsényi, Balázs; Lukic, Jasmina |
| Department | History PhD |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2015/lorand_zsofia.pdf |
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