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Trajectories of Women’s Citizenship from Socialism to the Bosnian War

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This chapter offers a historical overview of the legacies shaping women’s citizenship practices in post-Dayton Bosnia-Herzegovina through a wider time frame that takes into consideration the reverberations of state socialism and post-1989 political transformation as mediated through the specific regional context of the former Yugoslavia.

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Deiana, MA. (2018). Trajectories of Women’s Citizenship from Socialism to the Bosnian War. In: Gender and Citizenship. Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59378-8_2

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