The Romani Women’s Movement: Struggles and Debates in Central and Eastern Europe

by Angela Kocze (Editor), Violetta Zentai (Editor), Jelena Jovanović (Editor)

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.

292 pages, Hardcover

Published July 18, 2018

Reviews

[Viktoria · Rating 5 out of 5]

I hope that more people within diverse social justice movements begin to read Roma discourse and debates, especially within the North American women's movement. This collection of essays is powerful and transformative, im proud to be apart of this community and could not recommend this book more!!! Get it, read it and share it!!!