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Title Transgender in the Post-Yugoslav space Lives, activisms, culture / edited by Bojan Bilić, Iwo Nord, and Aleksa Milanović
Published Bristol : Policy Press, 2022

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 231 pages)
Contents Front Cover -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgments -- PART I Lives -- 1 Transgender lives in North Macedonia -- Citizenship, affective experiences, and socialisation -- Methodological considerations -- Gender police, discipline, and violence -- Gender administration and unequal access to biotechnology -- Networks of care and support -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- References -- 2 The resilience of trans existence through solidarity in Montenegro -- A newspaper interview with Marko Bojanic: pathologising compassion
The founding of Spektra and the performance Masks -- Who is entitled to full public healthcare? -- Public discussions of healthcare insurance law -- Transphobic nationalism: trans rights as pressured from the West -- Misusing trans issues to claim justice: competition over public healthcare support -- Intersectional standpoint -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 3 Transgender and non-binary persons, mental health, and gender binarism in Serbia -- TGNB people and mental health -- TGNB people in Serbia: laws, health, and discrimination -- Trans activism in Serbia -- Methods -- Results -- Survey
Clinical work with TGNB clients -- Self-help group -- Information, support, and community -- Navigating the medical/psychiatric system -- Dealing with gender binarism -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- References -- PART II Activisms -- 4 From survival to activism -- Contextualising the LGBTIQ+ movement in Kosovo -- Becoming Alexandra Krasnic -- Transitioning in post-war Kosovo -- Turning transition into a legal battle and a public campaign -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- References -- 5 Tortuous paths towards trans futures -- The movement and its people
Intractable oppression: tensions within LGBT movements -- Method -- Of origins, initiatives, and connections -- Motivations -- Frictions -- Locations -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 6 (Post)socialist gender troubles: -- Colonial dimensions of trans-exclusionary politics -- Patriarco-neocolonial entanglements of Yugoslav Marxist organising -- Method -- Results -- Patriarchy and sexism -- TERFism -- Uncritical translations -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- PART III Culture -- 7 Trans artivism in the post-Yugoslav space -- Art and activism -- Trans artivism
The performance of Masks in Montenegro -- Masks in Croatia and Serbia -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 8 'The truth is what is in the body': -- Notes -- Reference -- 9 Queering sevdah -- Sevdah: national tradition, zone of freedom -- Vreco's queer Bosnia -- Fan comments on Vreco's music videos -- Out of time: metaphysical themes -- Out of place: place and nation -- Queerness by any other name -- Affective experiences -- Articulating liveable futures -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index -- Back Cover
Summary This powerful book documents the unspoken stories of a diversity of gender embodiments across the post-Yugoslav states, uncovering how they have navigated the murky waters of war, racism, capitalism and transphobia
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed September 23, 2022)
Subject Transgender people -- Yugoslavia -- History
Transgender people -- Europe, Eastern -- History -- 20th century
Transgender people -- Civil rights -- Europe, Eastern -- 20th century
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies.
Transgender people.
Transgender people -- Civil rights.
Eastern Europe.
Yugoslavia.
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
Author Bilić, Bojan, editor
Nord, Iwo, editor
Milanović, Aleksa, 1981- editor.
ISBN 1447367634
9781447367635
9781447367628
1447367626