Abstract
This essay considers women’s emancipation in Socialist Yugoslavia as central to the socialist project. I focus on the feminist art of the 1970s and 1980s, aswell as contemporary engagements with the question of Yugoslavia. I put in conversation performance works by Sanja Iveković, Vlasta Delimar, Marina Gržinić, and Šejla Kamerić. The title of this essay, “Return of Jugoslovenka: An Unrequited Love Affair” points to how contested the position of Yugoslav women was during socialism, and how much it remains so today, albeit for very different reasons. As I show in the article, Yugoslav women in the arts embraced socialism as a political paradigm but vehemently resisted its patriarchal violence. I argue their art and work remain critical sites of feminist resistance to this day.
Recommended Citation
Tumbas, Jasmina
(2020)
"The Return of Jugoslovenka: An Unrequited Love Affair,"
Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies: Vol. 21:
Iss.
1, Article 6.
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.cortland.edu/wagadu/vol21/iss1/6
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