Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Foreword Margareta Matache
Introduction Romani Feminist Critique and Gender Politics
Angéla Kóczé, Violetta Zentai, Jelena Jovanović, and Enikő Vincze
Part I Social Categories and Agendas
Chapter 1 Missed Opportunity or Building Blocks of a Movement? History and Lessons from the Roma Women’s Initiative’s Efforts to Mobilize European Romani Women’s Activism
Debra Schultz and Nicoleta Bițu
Chapter 2 Negotiating the Identity Dilemma: Crosscurrents Across the Romani, Romani Women’s and Romani LGBTIQ Movements
Lucy Fremlová and Aidan McGarry
Chapter 3 Gender Relations and the Romani Women’s Movement in the Eyes of Romani Men: Towards the Potential for Transversal Politics
Jelena Jovanović and Violetta Zentai
Chapter 4 Heroines of Ours: Between Magnificence and Maleficence
Jelena M. Savić
Part II Linking the Personal and the Political
Chapter 5 Towards an Anti-Racist Feminism for Social Justice in Romania
Carmen Gheorghe, Letiția Mark, and Enikő Vincze
Chapter 6 Romani Women’s Friendship, Empowerment, and Politics: Views on Romani Feminism in Serbia and Beyond
Vera Kurtić and Jelena Jovanović
Chapter 7 Untapped Potential of Romani Women’s Activism in Contemporary Europe: Czech Republic
Jamen Gabriela Hrabaňová and Gwendolyn Albert
Chapter 8 Romani Gender Politics in Hungary and Feminist Alliances in Practice
Lídia Balogh
Chapter 9 The Dilemmas of the Romani Women’s Movement in Bulgaria: From Assimilation to Empowerment?
Teodora Krumova
Part III Transnational Inspirations
Chapter 10 Emancipation and Passionate Politics: Impact of Various Feminisms on Central and Eastern European Romani Women’s Activism
Anna Mirga-Kruszelnicka
Chapter 11 The Challenges of Kalí NGOisation after Francoism: Rethinking Activism in and beyond Spain
Patricia Caro Maya and Sarah Werner Boada
Concluding remarks: Promises and Prospects of the Romani Women’s Movement in Central and Eastern Europe
Alexandra Oprea
Carol Silverman
List of Contributors
Index