Same Goal, Different Paths, Different Class: Women’s Feminist Political Engagements in Kosovo from the Mid-1970s until the Mid-1990s

Abstract The year 1989, when Serbia revoked Kosovo’s autonomy, was a break that changed also the course of women’s political engagements. Women had always to negotiate and strategise with different layers power against forms oppression—state patriarchal oppression cultural racism as well class oppression. author highlights convergences divergences activism in dynamics late socialism then 1990s Kosovo. She looks at gender, national dimensions engagements focus on women who were part underground resistance movement commonly known Ilegalja 1970s 1980s intellectuals held high state positions considered elite. After many engaged peacaful 1990s.