Feminist Theory Website

Feminism in Bosnia-Herzegovina

Bosnia-Herzegovina

Internet Sites:

The Network of East-West Women has a page on Women's Organizations in Bosnia-Herzegovina here.

You can reach the United Nations' Women Watch -- Bosnia-Herzegovina page here.

You can reach The Network Women's Program -- Open Society Fund in Bosnia here. You can contact them through Nada Ler Sofranic here, or write to them at this postal address: Open Society Foundation - Bosnia & Herzegovina, Dzenetica Cikma 2, 71000 Sarajevo, BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA.

      Introduction

      An excellent introduction to the situation of women in war-ravaged Bosnia-Herzegovina is Mandy Jacobson's award-winning documentary film, Calling the Ghosts.

      Bibliography

      Allen, Beverly. Rape Warfare: The Hidden Genocide in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia. Univ. of Minnesota Press, 1996.

      Ramet, Sabrina P., ed. Gender Politics in the Western Balkans: Women, Society, and Politics in Yugoslavia and the Yugoslav Successor States. Penn State University Press, 1998.

      Stiglmayer, Alexandra, ed. Mass Rape: The War Against Women in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Univ. of Nebraska Press, 1994.

      Zarkovic, Radmila Manojlovic, ed. I Remember / Sjecam Se: Writings by Bosnian Women Refugees. Aunt Lute Books, 1996.

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