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Contesting Female, Feminist and Muslim Identities:

Post-socialist Contexts of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo

 

edited by: Zilka Spahić-Šiljak
published by
:
Centre for Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Studies of the University of Sarajevo (CIPS)
pp:
277
ISBN:
9958704293, 9789958704291
price:
free

Book's frontpage

This book is the result of a two-year-long research project, "feminism in post socialist Muslim contexts in BiH and Kosovo", which was conducted by the Center for Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Studies (CIPS), University of Sarajevo.
This rich volume offers a comprehensive and complex analysis of gender ideas and practices and the feminism that confront them within Islamic and secular contexts, adroitly entwining the historical, philosophical, and political.
Wide-ranging and incisive theoretical discussion in combination with nuanced oral histories of Muslim women in BiH and Kosovo, including both observant and non-observant women of two generations, mark this work as unique and invaluable. In this study, examining feminism in post-socialist BiH and Kosovo, identity, positioning, and women's experience are central themes. The narrative of women's perceptions, understandings, everyday experiences, encounters, avoidances, and activisms comprise the complicated and troubled picture of feminisms in contemporary BiH and Kosovo.

 

Table of contents

Acknowledgement
Foreword
 
Introduction

1. Women and politics

2. Feminisms and Islam

3. The Contexts of BiH and Kosovo

4. Being a Woman

5. Becoming A Feminist?

Conclusion

Appendix 1. Research Sample
Glossary
Index

Research project

Women and Peace-Building in Bosnia and Herzegovina
This project examines the previously under-recognized efforts and achievements of women peace-builders in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Drawing upon life story interviews with women of multiple ethnic and religious backgrounds, it documents and analyzes their contributions to reconciliation in a postwar, plural democratic society.

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