THE BAUW: WOMEN’S MOVEMENTS AND POLITICAL ENVIRONMENT IN BULGARIA, AN OVERVIEW

The goal of this paper is offering a longitudinal case study of the Bulgarian Association of University Women (BAUW) as an individual SMO within the frame of the emergence and history of women’s movements in Bulgaria. It is based on primary sources (such as the unpublished archives of the Bulgarian Communist Party). It will discuss the Association’s development in the period between the Bulgarian National Revival (the 1950-iås) and the fall of Communism (from 1989 onwards), and will focus on the changes in the official discourse of women’s movements in response to that of the power structure. At the same time, it will discuss their interaction with the state, and the ways in which the changes in political environment affected their identity and organization.
BAUW - THE WOMEN’S MOVEMENT DURING THE PERIOD OF THE NATIONAL REVIVAL
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