Footnote in a Global History: On Histories of Feminisms

The paper attempts to offer an alternative reading of the history of Yugoslav feminism. It focuses on birth and development of feminism during socialism, and its aftermath in times of war and disintegration of the common state. What were the trajectories of feminism that emerged in a socialist state? What were its chosen paths when both socialism and the state ceased to exist? The conceptual framework the paper uses draws upon the notion of citizenship regime, which offers a more intricate picture then those customarily used in elaborations of (post-) Yugoslav feminism - either those that compare feminism and nationalism, or those that rely on the wider comparison of feminism and capitalism. In the light of the latter remark, Nancy Fraser's article 'Feminism, Capitalism, and the Cunning of History' proved to be valuable for the argument on the complexities of (post-) Yugoslav feminism. Thus, the paper calls for a meticulous reading of the paradoxes of the local history of feminism.