| Summary/Abstract |
The article maps the positioning of women in the right-wing nationalist politics in Serbia, as well as the place of gender (equality) in the programs of these right-wing and other political parties. The grand frame of all right-wing groupings in Serbia is three-fold: (1) the collapse of the Yugoslav state and socialist regime; (2) the ethnonationalist frames of extreme wartime violence, which conditioned the Serbian postsocialist “transition”; and (3) the repatriarchalization of society and politics that resulted from the first two processes. The positioning of women in the New Right in Serbia will be explained by the context of the following processes: (a) nationalism and related historical revisionism that justifies the wars of the 1990s and their lasting unsettled aftermath, including the frozen conflict in Bosnia-Herzegovina and the unresolved status of Kosovo; (b) the transformation of Serbia from rogue state in the 1990s to the Europe-and-globally-friendly state; and (c) the globalization of the New Right, where the prominence of token women in leadership positions confuses their individual mobility with the broader goals of women’s solidarity, anti-discrimination struggle, and feminism.
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