Gender politics in the Western Balkans : women and society in Yugoslavia and the Yugoslav successor states / edited by Sabrina P. Ramet ; afterword by Branka Magas.

Other author Ramet, Sabrina P., 1949-
Format Book
Publication InfoUniversity Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©1999.
Description343 pages ; 24 cm.
Subjects
Women--Yugoslavia. --History.
Women--Former Yugoslav republics. --History.
Feminism--Yugoslavia. --History.
Feminism--Former Yugoslav republics. --History.

SeriesPost-Communist cultural studies
Post-Communist cultural studies. ^A406334
Contents Machismo and cryptomatriarchy: power, affect, and authority in the traditional Yugoslav family / Andrei Simić -- Ženski Pokret: the feminist movement in Serbia in the 1920s / Thomas A. Emmert -- Women in interwar Slovenia / Vlasta Jalušič -- Women in the Yugoslav national liberation movement / Barbara Jancar-Webster -- In Tito's time / Sabrina P. Ramet -- Women in post-socialist Slovenia: socially adapted, politically marginalized / Vlasta Jalušič -- Women in Croatia: feminists, nationalists and homosexuals / Tatjana Pavlović -- Women in Serbia: post-communism, war and nationalist mutations / Žarana Papić -- Women in Kosovo: contested terrains / Julie Mertus -- Women and gender imagery in Bosnia: amazons, sluts, victims, witches, and wombs / Obrad Kesić -- Rape in war: the case of Bosnia / Dorothy Q. Thomas and Regan E. Ralph -- Women writers in Croatian and Serbian literatures / Gordana P. Crnković -- Gender construction in literature: a historical survey / Gordana P. Crnković -- Ruža's problems: gender relations and violence control in a Bosnian rural community / Mart Bax.
Local noteLittle-328465--305131026568/
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [291]-319) and index.
LCCN 98020732
ISBN0271018011 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN027101802X (pbk. : alk. paper)