The Romani women's movement : struggles and debates in Central and Eastern Europe
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The Romani women's movement : struggles and debates in Central and Eastern Europe
（Routledge research in gender and society）
Routledge, 2019
- : hbk
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Other editors: Violetta Zentai, Jelena Jovanović, and Enikő Vincze
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The lack of recognition of Romani gender politics in the wider Romani movement and the women's movements is accompanied by a scarcity of academic literature on Romani women's mobilization in wider social justice struggles and debates.
The Romani Women's Movement highlights the role that Romani women's politics plays in shaping equality related discourses, policies, and movements in Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe. Presenting the diverse experiences and voices of Romani women activists, this volume reveals how they translate experiences of structural inequalities into political struggles by defining their own spaces of action; participating in formalized or less formal activist practices, and challenging the agendas and mechanisms of the established Romani and women's movements.
Moving discourses on and of Romani women from the periphery of scholarly exchanges to the mainstream, the volume invites scholars and activists from different disciplines and movements to critically reflect on their engagements with particular social justice agendas. It will appeal to students, researchers and practitioners interested in fields such as social movements, gender equality, and social and ethnic justice.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Foreword Margareta Matache
Introduction Romani Feminist Critique and Gender Politics
Angela Kocze, Violetta Zentai, Jelena Jovanovic, and Eniko Vincze
Part I Social Categories and Agendas
Chapter 1 Missed Opportunity or Building Blocks of a Movement? History and Lessons from the Roma Women's Initiative's Efforts to Mobilize European Romani Women's Activism
Debra Schultz and Nicoleta Bitu
Chapter 2 Negotiating the Identity Dilemma: Crosscurrents Across the Romani, Romani Women's and Romani LGBTIQ Movements
Lucy Fremlova and Aidan McGarry
Chapter 3 Gender Relations and the Romani Women's Movement in the Eyes of Romani Men: Towards the Potential for Transversal Politics
Jelena Jovanovic and Violetta Zentai
Chapter 4 Heroines of Ours: Between Magnificence and Maleficence
Jelena M. Savic
Part II Linking the Personal and the Political
Chapter 5 Towards an Anti-Racist Feminism for Social Justice in Romania
Carmen Gheorghe, Letitia Mark, and Eniko Vincze
Chapter 6 Romani Women's Friendship, Empowerment, and Politics: Views on Romani Feminism in Serbia and Beyond
Vera Kurtic and Jelena Jovanovic
Chapter 7 Untapped Potential of Romani Women's Activism in Contemporary Europe: Czech Republic
Jamen Gabriela Hrabanova and Gwendolyn Albert
Chapter 8 Romani Gender Politics in Hungary and Feminist Alliances in Practice
Lidia Balogh
Chapter 9 The Dilemmas of the Romani Women's Movement in Bulgaria: From Assimilation to Empowerment?
Teodora Krumova
Part III Transnational Inspirations
Chapter 10 Emancipation and Passionate Politics: Impact of Various Feminisms on Central and Eastern European Romani Women's Activism
Anna Mirga-Kruszelnicka
Chapter 11 The Challenges of Kali NGOisation after Francoism: Rethinking Activism in and beyond Spain
Patricia Caro Maya and Sarah Werner Boada
Concluding remarks: Promises and Prospects of the Romani Women's Movement in Central and Eastern Europe
Alexandra Oprea
Carol Silverman
List of Contributors
Index
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