Ivan Simic 'The Veil Lifting Campaign in Yugoslavia'

This seminar will explore the consequences of imposing the category of “backwardness” on Muslim women in Yugoslavia, arguing that it provided the communist government and its activists with the tools for radical interventions into Muslim women’s lives, culminating with the veil lifting campaign.

The seminar will tackle the positioning of the Muslim community leadership who supported new measures, the fervent attempts of the activists to “modernize” and unveil the Muslim women, and ultimately the severe punishments imposed by the legislators.