Feminist Translations in a Socialist Context: The Case of Yugoslavia (Gender&History, volume 30, n.1, 2018) (original) (raw)

This article explores the underrepresented history of feminism in socialist Yugoslavia and its contemporary post-Yugoslav states within the Western feminist discourse. It discusses the constraints imposed by linguistic barriers and cultural misunderstandings in the context of the Yugoslav wars, which resulted in the propagation of essentialist narratives about 'Balkan women.' Through an examination of translations and transnational interactions from the 1970s and 1980s, the paper argues that feminist ideas and practices from Yugoslavia interacted significantly with global feminist movements, revealing a complex network of knowledge exchange that challenges the prevailing notions of feminism that often ignore or misrepresent this region.