Lesbian activism in the (post-)Yugoslav space

Autor(en)

Bojan Bilic, M. Radoman

Abstrakt

This book intertwines academic and activist voices to engage with more than three decades of lesbian activism in the Yugoslav space. The empirically rich contributions uncover a range of lesbian initiatives and the fundamental, but rarely acknowledged, role that lesbian alliances have played in articulating a feminist response to the upsurge of nationalism, widespread violence against women, and high levels of lesbophobia and homophobia in all of the post-Yugoslav states. By offering a distinctly intergenerational and transnational perspective, this collection does not only shed new light on a severely marginalised group of people, but constitutes a pioneering effort in accounting for the intricacies – solidarities, joys, and tensions – of lesbian activist organising in a post-conflict and post-socialist environment. With a plethora of authorial standpoints and innovative methodological approaches, the volume challenges the systematic absence of (post-)Yugoslav lesbian activist enterprises from recent social science scholarship.
Lesbian Activism in the (Post-)Yugoslav Space will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines, including gender studies, history, politics, anthropology, and sociology.

Organisation(en)

Institut für Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie, Institut für Bildungswissenschaft

Anzahl der Seiten

239

DOI

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

Publikationsdatum

2019

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

504014 Gender Studies

Schlagwörter

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Allgemeine Sozialwissenschaften

Link zum Portal

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/4f0b2cd9-7254-4e7a-96a9-cd245b435920