Feminist troubles with the Balkans

Abstract

The paper analyses writings of Slavenka Drakulić and certain number of other feminist writers from ex-Yugoslavia aiming to answer to the following questions: first, how much and in what way the discourses on ex-Yugoslavia Balkans, (post)socialism, nationalism and war have been produced by local feminists and/or imported from the West; second, have these discourses been overlapping with local feminist discourses about masculinity and femininity and how.

Keywords

• feminism
• post socialism
• Balkans
• balkanism
• war
• masculinity
• femininity