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- Title
FEMINISM IN POST-COMMUNIST EUROPE CHALLENGES AND THE PATH FORWARD.
- Authors
Marinescu, Roxana
- Abstract
This article presents some of the challenges feminism in post-communist Europe is currently encountering in responding to the growing global backlash, as well as the envisaged path forward. The situation is due to its specific historic and geopolitical constraints: perceived inferiority vis-?-vis its Western counterpart, limited understanding of its specific role in the region and beyond, copying Western, mostly (neo)liberal versions (with all their white middle-class biases), hesitancy in adopting intersectional approaches in combatting gender inequalities, reduced networking with feminist movements of similar interests (more specifically of the postcolonial space). At the same time, the solutions are twofold: the topdown impositions of the supra-state construction of the European Union (critiqued as the gender equalitarian model they propose comes from within the same neoliberal paradigm) and the bottom-up work of non-governmental organisations in the region (with the critique of their possible co-optation in the neoliberal current paradigm of the respective states). Nevertheless, it is imperative for postcommunist feminism to achieve a better understanding of global feminist work, create stronger ties with sisters in other regions, strengthen the feminist solidarity network, and develop proactive resistance in face of the post-pandemic global challenges (anti-feminist movements, growing populism, nationalism, white supremacy, misogyny) and ultimately build a feminist transnational future.
- Subjects
EUROPE; POSTCOMMUNIST societies; NEOLIBERALISM; POPULISM; EUROPEAN Union
- Publication
Research Horizons, 2022, Vol 12, p83
- ISSN
2229-385X
- Publication type
Article