Neofeminism in Yugoslavia

Abstract

This paper examines the context and content of Yugoslav feminism. The "new feminist" movement in Yugoslavia was born in 1975 from a working group formed at an official conference. The movement emerged at a time when the country was undergoing a serious economic and social crisis. Its growth reflects the permanency of that crisis, with the successor 1980s generation of young feminists more militant than the movement's founders. The new feminists challenge the dogma that "the woman question" has been solved in socialist Yugoslavia, arguing that in fact the new industrial patriarchy is more pervasive and domineeringt than the old, traditional form.