Ten Years After: Communism and Feminism Revisited

Haan, Francisca de; Ghodsee, Kristen; Daskalova, Krassimira; Grabowska, Magdalena; Lukić, Jasmina; Bonfiglioli, Chiara; Popa, Raluca Maria; Ghit, Alexandra

doi:10.3167/asp.2016.100107

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“…In the post-Yugoslav region, similarly, the ambivalence of "state feminism" and figures like Tomšič has often come to the fore, in line with debates over the extent of women's agency within state socialist women's organizations (Bonfiglioli 2016c;De Haan 2016). As noted previously (Bonfiglioli 2016b;2016c), someone like Vida Tomšič held deep beliefs about the modern state and welfare institutions as fundamental factors of social change, equality, and political participation, especially due to the Yugoslav experience of self-managed workplaces and municipalities.…”

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Women’s Internationalism and Yugoslav-Indian Connections: From the Non-Aligned Movement to the UN Decade for Women

Bonfiglioli

2020

Nationalities Papers

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This article addresses women’s cross-border internationalist connections within the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), focusing on the exchanges between women’s organizations in socialist Yugoslavia and the Global South during the 1950s and 1960s, as well as during the UN Decade for Women (1975–1985). As a result of the Soviet-Yugoslav split, Yugoslavia was expelled from the Women’s International Democratic Federation (WIDF), the main organization federating antifascist, communist, and socialist women, in 1949. To overcome international isolation, Yugoslav representatives established their own bilateral connections with women’s organizations internationally, particularly in the Global South. Throughout the Cold War, the main figure behind women’s internationalism in Yugoslavia was Vida Tomšič (1913–1998), a former partisan and leading politician, trained as a lawyer, who had a fundamental role both in nonaligned and UN settings. In this article, I further analyze Vida Tomšič’s visits to India, and examine her correspondence with Indian scholar and Women’s Studies pioneer Vina Mazumdar (1927–2013). The exchanges between Vina and Vida, as they amicably addressed each other, exemplify the significance of the alliance between activists from socialist countries and activists from the Global South during the UN Decade for Women.

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Section: Yugoslavia India and The Role Of Women In Developmentmentioning

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Women’s Internationalism and Yugoslav-Indian Connections: From the Non-Aligned Movement to the UN Decade for Women

Bonfiglioli

2020

Nationalities Papers

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“…64 In the meantime, transnational encounters called into discussion the socialist emancipation projects: acknowledging the limits of the former regimes' gender policies, language, and ideology, postsocialist feminists also revalued and endorsed their accomplishments in women's rights and family policies matters. 65 Whatever their ideological stance toward the socialist regimes, women from ECE used the transatlantic "conversations" for building a common voice and for claiming their distinct political identity in the post-Cold War global venues of women's rights. First used by the NEWW founders to refer to the area targeted by their activist projects, the descriptive category "East European" was eventually endorsed as a premise of collective identifi cation by ECE feminists and gender experts taking part in international debates.…”

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Challenges and Pitfalls of Feminist Sisterhood in the Aftermath of the Cold War*

Cîrstocea¹

2020

Aspasia

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Established in the aftermath of the Cold War and animated by US-based scholars and activists experienced in the second wave of women’s liberation movements, the Network of East-West Women (NEWW) has received little attention from scholars. This transnational and transregional group played an instrumental role in triggering and structuring the circulation of information, contacts, and academic and activist publications dedicated to women in Central and Eastern Europe, and in conceptualizing new gender politics in that region after the end of the socialist regimes. Building on original empirical evidence (archive work and interviews), this article considers NEWW’s founding and its steps in establishing operations “beyond borders” in the 1990s—a time of professionalizing and globalizing women’s rights politics when transnational feminist activism was faced with both new challenges and potentialities.

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“…Others emphasise that prior to 1991, women's movements, although modest in comparison to those in the West, were present and that feminist consciousness developed despite state control (Lukić et al 2006;Haan at al. 2006;Haan 2016). Most importantly, in socialist states, the issue of violence against women was not openly discussed or actively fought against (Fábián 2010).…”

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'This is not a Story which would Shock!': The #MeToo Campaign in Slovenia

Завиржек

2020

JSPS

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In post-socialist Slovenia, the #MeToo campaign (#jaztudi), which was started by four public intellectuals in 2018, was rather different to its equivalent in most Western counties. The analysis of the #jaztudi campaign suggests that there are local specifics in the Slovenian material and that the campaign appeared at the peak of the era of neopatriarchy where global inequalities are on the rise. Hundreds of women who testified about sexual harassment and sexual violence were not celebrities and public figures. The men against whom they spoke up were not famous, rich and powerful. They disclosed ordinary, 'small' stories, which were far from spectacular. Women wrote about everyday sexual assaults in childhood, in their teens and in adulthood. The majority of them were not interested in taking legal action against the perpetrators, something which can partially be explained by the contexts of rurality, religious influences and the social norms related to sexual violence towards women that are reproduced in educational, judicial and other social systems. This article provides the social context of the situation facing women in Slovenia and attempts to explain why #MeToo campaigns in different countries are contextual. It shows the importance of locally specific factors that influence women’s readiness to speak out and to denounce perpetrators. A number of factors have a great impact on ending sexual violence against women, including the frequency of violence against women; women’s economic and social status; the responses of professionals in public institutions to which women could turn for help; as well as awareness on the part of parents, teachers and communities. The implementation of the Istanbul Convention, which Slovenia ratified in 2015, and its internalisation on both the cognitive and emotional levels, constitute an important historical turning point in the fight to end sexual violence.

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Ten Years After: Communism and Feminism Revisited

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Women’s Internationalism and Yugoslav-Indian Connections: From the Non-Aligned Movement to the UN Decade for Women

Women’s Internationalism and Yugoslav-Indian Connections: From the Non-Aligned Movement to the UN Decade for Women

Challenges and Pitfalls of Feminist Sisterhood in the Aftermath of the Cold War*

'This is not a Story which would Shock!': The #MeToo Campaign in Slovenia

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