In the edition of the documentation book series from the international seminar Women and politics, Ženska infoteka published papers presented at the seminar in Dubrovnik 2007: Women and politics: Class differences in feminism
The title includes 5 papers presented at the seminar that Ženska infoteka organizes for the last 11 years in Dubrovnik in cooperation with the Heinrich Böll Foundation - Regional Office in Sarajevo and the Inter-University Centre.
The papers deal with problematic areas of the term feminism concerning the issue of class differences that gained importance during the transition, at the time when individualistic ideology of the personal responsibility for one owns personal social success marginalizes all group identities – beside the consumer groups – and the unequal possibilities are making it harder for a lot of people to gather around mutual interests. The central topic of the seminar was analyzed from the local view, but also with a wider context trough the papers from Chile and from Turkey, so that the documentation book is published in English and Croatian, in order to bring the conclusions of the seminar to a wider readership. More >>

Like everybody else, we are also haunted by the elections these days. But, fortunatelly, there is life after the elections, so that we hope that the topics of this issue will help that the feminist politics, as also the women politics will be bether understood in the croatian society, and among ourselves. The issue contains interviews with Bojana Genov, the coordinator of Croatian womans web, then with Mirjana Ferić Vac, the member and candidate of the SDP on the elections, and with Vesna Pusić, the president of HNS. Beside that, as adition to the issue, we published the report of the state of human rights in Croatia for the year 2006. There are, further, book reviews and itinerary.
Publisher: Ženska infoteka
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31st issue of magazine »Bread and Roses«, under the title Key Words: festival, women, feminism, queer gathered documentation on Croatian FemFest and feminist and queer festivals of the region. We published Alenka Spacal’s paper »Feminism Opposite the ‘Eternal Female’« which contains an analysis of the relation of the category ‘feminist’, which she understands as a political category, opposed to the category of ‘female’, which she understands as essentialist. The basic thesis of Đurđa Knežević in her text »From Feminism to Feminism – Two Steps Back, One Step Forward, or: Feminists Facing Retirement« is that the first feminist wave had a subversive charge, contrary to the second wave, which has lost a critical theoretical (and political) position. Marina Butorac, Tanja Ratković, Ana Jelušić and Lea Jurišić presented last year’s FemFest. After that we have presentations of festivals from Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia – Rdeče zore, Pitchwise and Queer Beograd, review of a book Gracia Mendes’ Long Journey by Marija Geiger and account of Darija Žilić – »The Mine«. More >>

Ženska infoteka has published a new book of documents under the title "Women and Politics: Ten Years After". As has been the case during the last 10 years, this book is the result of the Annual International Seminar, organized by Ženska infoteka, in cooperation with the Heinrich Böll Foundation - Regional Office in Sarajevo and the Inter-University Centre in Dubrovnik. The book presents 11 papers which have been presented at the seminar. While focusing on the main topic of the seminar, the authors discuss to what extent have the social and political positions of women changed, and how far has the impact of their political activism reached during the period of the last 10 years which has been a turbulent time and a period of big political, economic, cultural changes in Eastern Europe. The authors discuss a whole variety of problems and experiences that range geographically (Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Germany, Hungary, Croatia, Serbia, Macedonia and Egypt). More >>

Alice Schwarzer: Simone de Beauvoir – Rebellin und Wegbereiterin
Alice Schwarzer recorded in the book Simone de Beauvoir. Rebellin und Wegbereiterin the conversations she had had with Simone de Beauvoir in the period from 1972 till 1982. From then on these conversations have become worldwide known and widely discussed. They represent the key to the understanding of the political/feminist efforts in the work and lives of these two authors. Simone de Beauvoir is the role model of the modern, engaged woman intellectual. In the post war era of the welfare state, she was a radical philosopher in the spirit of existentialism. She has disclosed the image of woman in biology, in the theory of psychoanalysis, in the historical materialism, studied the modern gender roles and had set freedom, right to self-determination and equality as the fundaments of all values. Her classic book "The other gender" is a must for the feminist readership of the 20th century.
In this book Alice Schwarzer demonstrates the significance of de Beauvoir for the modern social theory and praxis. The conversations between two women are characterized by an unusually frank tone – especially bearing in mind that de Beauvoir was known as very timid and fragile person. This openness was made possible by their relationship: Alice Schwarzer was a friend and a companion in political deliberations. The questions they have opened in these conversations – identity, power, men, children, and politics - are still increasingly important.

Until today the book has been translated into 8 languages: English, French, Spanish, Dutch, Danish, Turkish, Persian and Japanese. This shows how important it is for the history of women's movement as well as for the conception of the social movements after the year 1968 - in which Simone de Beauvoir had played an important intellectual role, together with her life companion, Jean Paul Sartre.

The book is a testimony of the great writer, philosopher and, of course, feminist, but also a guidepost in the issues such as freedom, human rights, emancipation etc. In the amalgam of processes known as globalization, the deliberations of de Beauvoir are coming back to haunt us. Her existentialist thesis on human freedom and her intellectual contributions to the international women's movement are as interesting and as relevant today as they were 30 years ago.
The book was edited by Đurđa Knežević. More >>