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Genders and Sexualities in Histor y
Series Editors
John Arnold
King’s College
University of Cambridge
Cambridge, UK
Sean Brady
Birkbeck College
University of London
London, UK
Joanna Bourke
Birkbeck College
University of London
London, UK
Palgrave Macmillan’s series, Genders and Sexualities in History, aims to
accommodate and foster new approaches to historical research in the
fields of genders and sexualities. The series will promote world-class
scholarship that concentrates upon the interconnected themes of gen-
ders, sexualities, religions/religiosity, civil society, class formations, pol-
itics and war.
Historical studies of gender and sexuality have often been treated as
disconnected fields, while in recent years historical analyses in these two
areas have synthesized, creating new departures in historiography. By
linking genders and sexualities with questions of religion, civil society,
politics and the contexts of war and conflict, this series will reflect recent
developments in scholarship, moving away from the previously dominant
and narrow histories of science, scientific thought and legal processes.
The result brings together scholarship from contemporary, modern, early
modern, medieval, classical and non-Western history to provide a dia-
chronic forum for scholarship that incorporates new approaches to gen-
ders and sexualities in history.
The Feminist
Challenge to the
Socialist State in
Yugoslavia
Zsófia Lóránd
University of Göttingen
Göttingen, Germany
Cover image designed by Lepa Mlađenović, with the help of the late Dragan Stojanovski.
As the organiser of the event the poster advertises, Lepa Mlađenović is the holder of the
copyrights of the poster
vii
viii Series Editors’ Preface
Language, concepts and ideology were key elements in the new Yugoslav
feminism, which drew inspiration from critical Marxism, post-structur-
alist French feminism, psychology, anthropology and sociology, and
built upon the Yugoslav partisan tradition as an emancipatory ideology
for women. The former Yugoslavia had the longest and most active and
critically incisive feminist history in Eastern Europe between the end of
the World War II and the fall of state socialism in 1989. In this timely
and compelling book, Zsófia Lóránd analyses one of Yugoslavia’s greatest
promises, the equality of women and the ways in which new Yugoslav
feminism strove to challenge the state to achieve women’s equality in
reality. In common with all volumes in the Genders and Sexualities in
History series, The Feminist Challenge to the Socialist State in Yugoslavia
presents a multifaceted and meticulously researched scholarly study and
is a sophisticated contribution to our understanding of the past.
John Arnold
Joanna Bourke
Sean Brady
Acknowledgements
This book would not exist and certainly would not be the same without
the help and support of many people. First and foremost, this book
would not exist without the women who made new Yugoslav feminism
in the 1970s and 1980s possible, many of whom generously talked to me
at length about their lives. It is partly in respect for their openness that I
will make my acknowledgements here personal. I was deeply impressed
when some 15 years ago, I learned about the existence of such a rich his-
tory of feminism in Yugoslavia as early as 1970s and 1980s. I’m writing
this story, so that we, feminists in East Central Europe and beyond, can
have it and share it.
I cannot find words sufficient to express my appreciation of those
women who took the time to share their memories with me. These con-
versations often went far beyond the exchange of information. I felt that I
received not only material for this book, but care and precious lessons for
life. Many of you kept on standing by my side and helping me with con-
tacts, advice, materials, giving all this unconditionally, without knowing
what the outcome of this book would be. I can only hope that you will
Andrea Feldman, Vlasta Jalušič, Biljana Kašić, Vesna Kesić, Vera Litričin,
Lepa Mlađenović, Vesna Nikolić-Ristanović, Nada Popović Perišić, Tanja
Rener, Biljana Tomić (for our coffee talk), Neda Todorović, Sofija Trivunac,
Dubravka Ugrešić, Dragica Vukadinović, Lina Vušković and Sonja Drljević,
who left us just a couple of weeks before I finished this manuscript.
ix
x Acknowledgements
Thank you all for making these years not only an intellectual challenge
but ultimate fun as well.
Feminist friendships are so special that one day I will write a book
about the subject. Until then, I can only say that it has been most
empowering, entertaining and enriching to have all these years convers-
ing with and learning from my smart, innovative and sensitive activist
friends, first and foremost Mariann Dósa and someone who for me, rede-
fined the concept of best friend: Éva Cserháti.
Friends who made Belgrade almost a home to me: Vlada Petrović,
Goran Radovanović and my favourite contemporary artist, about whom
someone one day should write a beautiful monograph: Ivana Smiljanić,
thank you all.
I would like to warmly thank Nives, Jasna, Boško Đurašković and
remember draga Baka Marica for being my Yugo-family, for all the fish
and all the love.
Stevo Đurašković has been there for me from the moment I decided
to write this book, first as a partner and then as a very special friend, sup-
porting, believing, advising, arguing, xeroxing and scanning, being the
chief of my Zagreb headquarters—hvala ti.
There are two types of academic work: those written without cats and
those written with cats. This one was written for many years in the com-
pany of Peti and Dorka, who were unexpectedly followed by Miloš and
Muha, and I do blame most of the typos on them, as they often used my
keyboard as a pillow.
Maybe the hardest and the most personal part of the acknowledge-
ments of this book is that I would like at least to say thank you to my
family.
To my father, Péter Lóránd, who made a little girl believe she has the
intellectual capacity to achieve anything—I am now where I have wanted
to be, so this was well done. To Dani, who is the best nephew on this
planet and who as a baby read new Yugoslav feminist texts for long hours
with me in my arms, probably without knowing what I put him through.
To my niece Kátya, who is relatively new in this family, but is already
tougher than her mother, aunt and grandmother combined, and that is
not easy to achieve. Thanks guys for dragging me away from the desk
to building Millennium Falcons in my living room and volcanos at the
playground. To Gergő Hagymási, who is much more of a brother than
an in-law and is always there when his absent-minded sister-in-law needs
him. To Marci, Dr. László Márton, my mother’s partner and husband for
Acknowledgements xiii
more than 30 years, without whom this family would not be the same.
We are lucky to have him.
To my love, Michael Kozakowski. As I told you the other day, I can-
not possibly put into words what I feel for you. You just hopped into my
life with your sweet, smart, fun sons Christopher and Lukas, made me
part of a new family and turned my life into chaos and order all at once.
You are magic, as are your awesome parents, Elizabeth and Stan, who
also played no small role in the completion of this manuscript.
I would like to dedicate this book to the women who made me the
woman I am today. To my late grandmothers, Terézia Vértesi and Erika
Harmath, who taught me so much about life, being a woman, being a
person. To my mother, Enikő Szalontai, who showed me an example in
so many ways and who heroically struggled through the double, triple
roles a young woman of the 1970s in Hungary faced. To Edit Lóránd.
Thank you for Dani, thank you for Kátya and first and foremost, thank
you for being my sister.
The poster on the cover of this book was designed by Lepa Mlađenović
with the help of Dragan Stojanovski. The Serbo-Croatian script says:
“I, you, they ... for us”
“women’s solidarity now”
“women against violence against women”
Third Yugoslav Feminist Meeting [or gathering], feminist group
Woman and Society, from 30 March till 1 April 1990. SKC Belgrade.
Contents
1 Introduction 1
A Brief Overview of the Events, Forums and Members
of the New Yugoslav Feminism 3
The Theoretical Consequences and the Place of This Project
in the Existing Historiography 7
Theoretical Framework and Methodology 13
Feminism: Conceptual Clarifications 18
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xvi Contents
6 Conclusion 223
Bibliography
231
Index 265
Abbreviations
xix
List of Figures
Nebojsa Čanković) 35
of the SKC Archives. Photographer of the SKC events:
Fig. 2.3 The poster of the first Lilit event in the discotheque called
K4 in Ljubljana, 3rd April 1985 37
Fig. 2.4 Sonja Drljević in 1981 (Courtesy of the SKC Archives) 40
Fig. 2.5 Dunja Blažević and Rada Iveković at the Drug-ca conference
in Belgrade in 1978 (Courtesy of the SKC Archives) 47
Fig. 2.6 Lydia Sklevicky and Žarana Papić (Courtesy of the SKC
Archives) 53
Fig. 2.7 Mojca Dobnikar and Lydia Sklevicky in 1986 at the ŠKUC
Gallery 55
Fig. 3.1 At the discussion “Women in Art”, which took place
with the participants of the 4th Aprilski susreti, the April
Meetings—The Expanded Media Festival. From the curators
associated with the SKC, Dunja Blažević and Biljana Tomić
were present, 9th April 1975 (Courtesy of the SKC Archives) 89
Fig. 3.2 “Why do women not catcall men?” A poster campaign
prepared in 1976 by Žarana Papić and Ivan Vejvoda,
designed by Dragan Stojanovski. The posters were installed
in the university buildings all over Belgrade (Courtesy of the
SKC Archives) 95
xxi
xxii List of Figures
Fig. 5.1 The general poster of the tribine in the SKC Belgrade
(Courtesy of the SKC Archives) 176
Fig. 5.2 Lepa Mlađenović. Photographer: Haya Shalom 185
Fig. 5.3 Preparing the first Akciona anketa at the SKC in 1988,
photograph by Lepa Mlađenović 196
Fig. 5.4 Vlasta Jalušič, Biljana Kašić, Žarana Papić in the early 1990s 208
Fig. 6.1 The stall of the Slovenian SOS helpline at the conference
of the Slovenian Union of Socialist Youth 227
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