FEMINIST ANTI-WAR DISCOURSE IN SERBIA IN THE 1990S: A HISTORICAL OVERVIEW AND GENEALOGICAL INTERPRETATION Cover Image

FEMINISTIČKI ANTIRATNI DISKURS U SRBIJI 1990-IH: ISTORIJSKI PREGLED I GENEALOŠKA INTERPRETACIJA
FEMINIST ANTI-WAR DISCOURSE IN SERBIA IN THE 1990S: A HISTORICAL OVERVIEW AND GENEALOGICAL INTERPRETATION

Author(s): Nevena Rudinac, MIloš Todorović
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Gender Studies, Civil Society, Gender history
Published by: Institut za filozofiju i društvenu teoriju
Keywords: feminism; anti-war movement; counter-public; post-socialism; Serbia in the 1990s

Summary/Abstract: This article traces the emergence and the shaping of feminist anti-war activism in Serbia during the 1990s, during a period marked by war, nationalism, and the collapse of social institutions. Starting from the position of women in late socialism and the post-socialist transformation, the article highlights how feminist initiatives, from street protests and SOS lines to journals and gender studies, created an alternative public space in which war, violence, and responsibility could be named differently. Viewed from a genealogical perspective, this process shows that feminist pacifism was not a pre-given moral position, but a form of political action that emerged in tension with dominant regimes of truth about the nation, the body, and the victim, opening up a space for new forms of witnessing and political subjectivity.

  • Issue Year: 7/2026
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 213-226
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Serbian
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