Title: A Women's Political Party for Yugoslavia: Introduction to the Serbian Feminist Manifesto
Abstract: In early November, just before the Serbian national elections, a group of women in Belgrade took the bold step of forming a women's political party. Two months later it had five hundred enrolled members, a committee of twenty and a shared leadership of nine. It was also getting a great deal of media attention. The party is called ZEST short for Zenska Stranka, the Women's Party. The word itself, as in English, suggests a positive force or energy. As an acronym it combines other meanings: the Z stands for women, E for ethics, S for solidarity or co-operation, and the T for tolerance. Yugoslavia today is beset by economic crisis and riven by internal dissension. Indeed, civil war is now imminent. What the Women's Party stands for, as much as a platform for women, is a platform for peace. Although their manifesto is clearly by, for and about women and women's rights and freedoms, it is also an intervention for the nonviolent resolution of differences among the Yugoslavian national
Publication Year: 1991
Publication Date: 1991-11-01
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref']
Access and Citation
Cited By Count: 6
AI Researcher Chatbot
Get quick answers to your questions about the article from our AI researcher chatbot