Abstract
Abstract This article examines the meaning of ethnic-national identity focusing on author's personal search for ethnic-national identity or location in the context of the disintegration of Yugoslavia. From that point of departure, the author analyses the position and role of women within ethnic-national discourses in what was Yugoslavia. The article challenges the essentialist notion of belonging to ethnic-national collective and its links to the patriarchal values of brotherhood and solidarity, examining the way that the discourse of male violence and ethnic-nationalism works in relation to gender. It argues for deconstruction and rearticulation of such male-defined maps of belonging, suggesting a more inclusive politics of ethnic-national identity which would allow for allegiances based on acts of conscious political choice and acknowledgement of internal differences.
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