Introduction: Recovering/rethinking (post-)Yugoslav lesbian activisms

Author(s)

Bojan Bilic

Abstract

This chapter sets the stage for the volume by positioning almost four decades of (post-)Yugoslav lesbian activism in the context of other instances of extra-institutional engagement in this region, and the broader sphere of European and Anglo-American lesbian mobilisation. It underscores the distinctly transnational (both regional and international) character of (post-)Yugoslav lesbian undertakings and examines the relevance of transnational lesbian solidarities for undermining patriarchal values that lie at the heart of still rather widespread militarisation, violence against women and lesbophobia/homophobia in all of the post-Yugoslav states.

Organisation(s)

Department of Education, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology

Pages

1-26

No. of pages

26

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77754-2_1

Publication date

2019

Peer reviewed

Yes

Austrian Fields of Science 2012

504014 Gender studies

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Social Sciences(all)

Portal url

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/introduction-recoveringrethinking-postyugoslav-lesbian-activisms(33c6d3b3-1bd4-4db4-abcc-a325146f6842).html