Protected by friendship and caring: Women and peace in the former Yugoslav countries

Jasmina Lukić*

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This article speaks about cooperation between women's groups and feminist activists as the most important characteristic of the feminist movements in the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s and 2000s. Faced with a series of brutal wars and nationalist divisions in the early 1990s, women responded by developing a strong feminist movement but also by constituting a leading majority in regional antiwar activities. The first part of this article provides some historical perspective, contextualizing the feminist movement in the region. Several examples of regional cooperation across borders and political divisions throughout the past two decades are given, highlighting some of the participants in these processes. In the second part, the article focuses on close relations between knowledge production and activism in the region, which resulted in significant publishing activity.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)532-541
Number of pages10
JournalSigns
Volume36
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - 2011

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