ABSTRACT
While first wave feminism highlighted the importance of giving women a voice and to make their specific living contexts visible, the second wave feminism including gender studies aims to provide a broader concept of “gender” including also generation and culture. In other words gender is considered as being a relational concept referring to the gender relations given in certain cultural contexts. This is in particular interesting for the Balkan countries with their communist history: they are on one side specific due to their non-identitarian politics, on the other hand it is expected that they follow the EU guidelines in terms of antidiscrimination, equality and inclusion. Thus this chapter will elaborate the idea of GGC (gender, generation and culture) in a highly differentiated European context and will sketch spaces for the empowerment of women in terms of more gender equality.
