Lesbian Activism in the (Post-)Yugoslav Space: Sisterhood and Unity [Hardcover]

This book intertwines academic and activist voices to engage with more than three decades of lesbian activism in the Yugoslav space. The empirically rich contributions uncover a range of lesbian initiatives and the fundamental, but rarely acknowledged, role that lesbian alliances have played in articulating a feminist response to the upsurge of nationalism, widespread violence against women, and high levels of lesbophobia and homophobia in all of the post-Yugoslav states. By offering a distinctly intergenerational and transnational perspective, this collection does not only shed new light on a severely marginalised group of people, but constitutes a pioneering effort in accounting for the intricacies  solidarities, joys, and tensions  of lesbian activist organising in a post-conflict and post-socialist environment. With a plethora of authorial standpoints and innovative methodological approaches, the volume challenges the systematic absence of (post-)Yugoslav lesbian activist enterprises from recent social science scholarship.

Lesbian Activism in the (Post-)Yugoslav Space will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines, including gender studies, history, politics, anthropology, and sociology. 

1. Introduction Recovering/Rethinking (Post-)Yugoslav Lesbian Activisms; Bojan Bili.- 2. Yearning for Space, Pleasure, and Knowledge: Autonomous Lesbian and Queer Feminist Organising in Ljubljana; Teja Oblak and Maja Pan.- 3. Cartographies of Fear and Freedom: Lesbian Activists in the First Belgrade and Zagreb Pride Parades: Sanja Kajini .- 4. Sisterhood beyond Borders: Transnational Aspects of (Post-)Yugoslav Lesbian Activism; Irene Dioli.- 5. Breaking the Silence: Lesbian activism in Macedonia; Irena Cvetkovic.- 6. Searching for a Lesbian Voice: Womens Non-Heterosexual Activism in Montenegro; Marina Vukovi and Paula Petri1evlsÇ