Gender, Nation and Women Politicians in Serbia and Kosovo: A Political Ethnography

ISBN-13: 9781032045139 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 182 str.

Gordana Subotic

Opis

Based on close studies of the work of a small number of women from different ethnic backgrounds, this book examines the ways women politicians in Serbia and Kosovo have imagined, constructed, and politicised national and gender identities while engaging with politics in the context of the democratisation process.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. Women Politicians and the Nation: Ethnie, Birth, Tragedy, from ‘I’ to ‘We’  2. Women Politicians, Blood and Roots  3. Women Politicians and Symbols, Myths, and Rituals  4. Women Politicians and Women’s Participation in Nationalist Projects: Women as Biological Reproducers  5. Women Politicians and Women’s Participation in Nationalist Projects: Women as Drawers of Political, Ideological, and Symbolic Boundaries and Transmitters of Culture  6. Women Politicians and Women’s Participation in Nationalist Projects: Women as Signifiers of Ethnic and National Differences and Women as Active Participants in Ethnie and Nationalist Struggles  7. Women Politicians, Gender, Nation and Democratisation: Entering the ‘Oda’, Patriarchal Bargains and Survival Strategies  Conclusion: Contribution, Limitations, and Future Research

O autorze

Gordana Subotić has taught in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne, Australia.