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Trauma, Violence, and Lesbian Agency in Croatia and Serbia - Building Better Times

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This book uncovers some of the major moments in the fragile and still poorly known herstory of feminist lesbian engagement in Serbia and Croatia. By treating the trauma of war, homophobia, and neoliberal capitalism as a verbally impenetrable experience that longs to be narrated, this monograph explores the ways in which feminist lesbian language has repeatedly emerged in the context of strong patriarchal silencing that has surrounded the armed conflicts of the Yugoslav succession. With an abundance of empirical material, Bilic illuminates a range of courageous but sometimes contested and controversial activist responses to the challenges posed by the violent intersection of misogyny, lesbophobia, poverty, and nationalism. The book renders visible a surprising diversity of activist initiatives and the resilience of transnational affective ties, which testify to the creativity of lesbian activist mobilisations in theambivalent semi-peripheral space that used to be Yugoslavia.
Trauma, Violence, and Lesbian Agency in Croatia and Serbia will be of interest to scholars and students researching the history and politics of Eastern Europe, as well as to those working in the fields of political sociology, lesbian and gay studies, gender studies, and queer theory and activism.

List of contents

1. Introduction: In Lesbian Worlds.- 2. Coming Out: Announcing Lesbinality in Yugoslavia.- 3.Times of Splits: Surviving the 1990s.- 4. Away from the Capitals: Decentralising Lesbian Activist Engagement.- 5. Speaking Separately: 2015 Belgrade Lesbian March and Its Antecedents  .- 6. In Power?: Ana Brnabic, Abjection, and Class Privilege .- 7. Conclusion: Against the Burdens of the Unspoken .

About the author

Bojan Bilić is FCT Fellow at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon, Portugal, and Adjunct Professor of Gender and Social Movements in South East Europe at the School of Political Sciences, University of Bologna (Forlì Campus), Italy.

Summary

This book uncovers some of the major moments in the fragile and still poorly known herstory of feminist lesbian engagement in Serbia and Croatia. By treating the trauma of war, homophobia, and neoliberal capitalism as a verbally impenetrable experience that longs to be narrated, this monograph explores the ways in which feminist lesbian language has repeatedly emerged in the context of strong patriarchal silencing that has surrounded the armed conflicts of the Yugoslav succession. With an abundance of empirical material, Bilić illuminates a range of courageous but sometimes contested and controversial activist responses to the challenges posed by the violent intersection of misogyny, lesbophobia, poverty, and nationalism. The book renders visible a surprising diversity of activist initiatives and the resilience of transnational affective ties, which testify to the creativity of lesbian activist mobilisations in theambivalent semi-peripheral space that used to be Yugoslavia.
Trauma, Violence, and Lesbian Agency in Croatia and Serbia will be of interest to scholars and students researching the history and politics of Eastern Europe, as well as to those working in the fields of political sociology, lesbian and gay studies, gender studies, and queer theory and activism.

Product details

Authors Bojan Bili¿, Bojan Bilic, Bojan Bilić
Publisher Springer, Berlin
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 01.01.2020
 
EAN 9783030229597
ISBN 978-3-0-3022959-7
No. of pages 204
Dimensions 150 mm x 18 mm x 215 mm
Weight 406 g
Illustrations VII, 204 p.
Subjects Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous

Europa, B, Women, Gender Studies, Europe, European Politics, Gender Studies: Gruppen, Identity Politics, Social Sciences, Politics & government, auseinandersetzen, Gender identity, Gender studies, gender groups, Europe—Politics and government, Politics and Gender, Gender and Sexuality, Gender studies: women & girls, Women's Studies

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