Gender and the Balkans, two categories present in the title of this book, for along time have been defined by hegemonic groups. As a consequence of the research assembled in this volume, it is high time to challenge biologist concepts of gender as well as primordialist views on ethnicity and nationality.

Undoing Gender, Undoing the Balkans: Towards Ethnic and Gender Reconciliation - Gender Relations in Bosnia and Herzegovina between Theory and Practice - European Union and Western Balkans: What Prospect for Gender Equality? - Prostitution as a Profession – Searching for Answers between the Headlines - Gendering Politics. The Impact of Women Politicians and NGOs in the Western Balkans - Women experts – Public Disbelief in Women Professionals in Serbia - Gender and Language in Albania - Ljiljana Markoviü Language and Gender in Tertiary-Level Education - “Performing – Women” and the Socio-Political Regime: Addressing in Socialist Slovenia Compared to Today - Job Advertisements in Croatian Newspapers – Gender Perspective - Creating Public Concern about a Woman’s Ability to Govern the Country: The Case of Jadranka Kosor and the Media - Reproduction, Nation, and Masculinity: Serbia in the 1990s - Law, Politics and Homosexuality in Croatia, 1941–1952 - Women in Socialist Yugoslavia in the 1950s. The Example of Rajka Borojeviü and the Dragaþevo Women’s Cooperative - Jovanka and Josip Broz Tito: Gender and Power at the Top of Communist Yugoslavia