CENTER FOR WOMEN’S STUDIES

BELGRADE, SERBIA

1992

Management and equipment. Structure

The team was guided by a horizontal form of management.

Operating Team; Assambly; Council.

Objectives

  • The promotion of democratic, non-institutional education through fostering a culture of diversity and non-violence.
  • To produce, share and activate feminist knowledge in the public space.
  • To create, collect, and affirm feminist knowledge through research, publishing, and professional support. The Center also conducts interdisciplinary educational programs for the activist, professional and other interested communities.
  • The aim of the Center is theoretical research, as well as political action against social practices of discrimination and exclusion based on sex, gender, skin color, class, as well as ethnic, national, religious and other affiliations.

Research and results

  • Violence against women and social transition in FR Yugoslavia (Vesna Nikolić Ristanović, 1997).
  • Domestic violence and criminality of women (Vesna Nikolić Ristanović, 1997).
  • The women’s movement in Belgrade during the 1990s (Marina Blagojević, 1997/1998). Publication: Marina Blagojević (ed.), Towards visible women’s history – the women’s movement in Belgrade during the 90s, Belgrade: Center for Women’s Studies, 1998.
  • Representation of the female body in visual media in Serbia 1990-1998 (Branka Arsić, 1998). Publication: Branka Arsić (Ed.), Women, pictures, inventions, Belgrade: Center for Women’s Studies, 2000.
  • Women in physics: the case of Yugoslavia (Dragana Popović, 1998/1999).
  • Dictionary of Misogyny (Marina Blagojević, 1999/2000). Publication: Marina Blagojević (Ed.), Mapping Misogyny in Serbia: Discourses and Practices, Belgrade: AŽIN, 2000.
  • Women and the media (Snježana Milivojević, 2001-2004).
  • Family and parenting in rural Serbia (Ljubica Rajković, 2001-2004)
  • Women, science and university in the Balkans (Daša Duhaček and Dragana Popović 2004-2005).
  • School for Equality – The first step in the integration of gender issues into the curriculum of primary schools in Serbia (Biljana Branković, 2004-2005).
  • General analysis of the gender dimension in educational materials (Daša Duhaček, 2008-2010).
  • Policies and mechanisms for achieving gender equality in Serbia (Daša Duhaček, 2008-2010).
  • Education in the field of human rights in Serbia (Darija Koturović, Ivan Ilić, Bojan Stojanović, Nađa Bobičić, Lara Končar and Nađa Duhaček).
  • Socio-economic and political changes in Serbia and the issue of gender-based violence (about 2020).
  • Bringing back your times: a research-based campaign for equal habits in doing housework among Millennial and American women (about 2021-2022).

Ongoing projects

  • Opposing the regression of gender equality in Serbia (2023).