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Trauma, Violence, and Lesbian Agency in Croatia and Serbia

Building Better Times

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Authors:
  1. Bojan Bilić

    1. Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal

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  • Uncovers in a systematic, empirical, and interdisciplinary fashion the up to now largely neglected history of lesbian activist organising before and after the dissolution of Yugoslavia
  • Puts lesbian activist engagement in the context of profound social changes witnessed by the Yugoslav region over the last three decades with a focus on Serbia and Croatia
  • Challenges methodological nationalism through a distinctly transnational approach

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Introduction: In Lesbian Worlds

    • Bojan Bilić
    Pages 1-27

  3. Coming Out: Announcing Lesbianity in Yugoslavia

    • Bojan Bilić
    Pages 29-56

  4. Times of Splits: Surviving the 1990s

    • Bojan Bilić
    Pages 57-103

  5. Away from the Capitals: Decentralising Lesbian Activist Engagement

    • Bojan Bilić
    Pages 105-124

  6. Speaking Separately: 2015 Belgrade Lesbian March and Its Antecedents

    • Bojan Bilić
    Pages 125-159

  7. In Power? Ana Brnabić, Abjection, and Class Privilege

    • Bojan Bilić
    Pages 161-189

  8. Conclusion: Against the Burdens of the Unspoken

    • Bojan Bilić
    Pages 191-196

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 197-204
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About this book

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.

Reviews

“The position of the author of this book is intellectually unique: he learned to love from women, from lesbians and feminists, and he is writing about us and our struggles with a voice that comes from an exceptionally personal and subjective dis/stance. Not all of us will agree with him, but ‘our’ important work has most likely never before been touched upon with such respect and serenity. Having international audience in mind, I wish Bojan’s book could help us, feminist lesbians and queer feminists, to look into our activist political selves deeper, again and again.” — Maja Pan, Researcher and Activist, Slovenia    

Authors and Affiliations

  • Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal

    Bojan Bilić

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.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Trauma, Violence, and Lesbian Agency in Croatia and Serbia

  • Book Subtitle: Building Better Times

  • Authors: Bojan Bilić

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22960-3

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-22959-7Published: 14 February 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-22962-7Published: 26 August 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-22960-3Published: 13 February 2020

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VII, 204

  • Topics: Gender and Sexuality, Women's Studies, European Politics, Politics and Gender

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