Angéla Kóczé is Assistant Professor of Romani Studies and Academic Director of the Roma Graduate Preparation Program at Central European University, Budapest, Hungary.

Violetta Zentai is co-director of the Center for Policy Studies at the Central European University, Budapest, Hungary.

Jelena Jovanovic is Policy and Research Coordinator for the European Roma Grassroots Organizations (ERGO) Network, Brussels, Belgium as well as Research Affiliate of the Center for Policy Studies at Central European University, Budapest, Hungary.

Enikő Vincze is Professor at Babes-Bolyai University and housing activist in Cluj, Romania.

Acknowledgements

Foreword Margareta Matache

Introduction Romani Feminist Critique and Gender Politics

Angéla Kóczé, Violetta Zentai, Jelena Jovanovi¿, and Enik¿ 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 Bi¿u

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 Jovanovi¿ and Violetta Zentai

Chapter 4 Heroines of Ours: Between Magnificence and Maleficence

Jelena M. Savi¿

Part II Linking the Personal and the Political

Chapter 5 Towards an Anti-Racist Feminism for Social Justice in Romania

Carmen Gheorghe, Leti¿ia Mark, and Enik¿ Vincze

Chapter 6 Romani Women's Friendship, Empowerment, and Politics: Views on Romani Feminism in Serbia and Beyond

Vera Kurti¿ and Jelena Jovanovi¿

Chapter 7 Untapped Potential of Romani Women's Activism in Contemporary Europe: Czech Republic

Jamen Gabriela Hrabäová 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