Gender revisionism and the moral outrage : the case(s) of artistic scandals in post-socialist Slovenia

Vidmar, Ksenija H. (author)

The paper looks into the politics of gender in Slovenia after the collapse of the Yugoslav federal state. Gender, and women's gender and sexual roles in particular, are considered social anchors of continuity. In post-socialist transition society, however, the opposite is true. Break from the gender norms and identities of the preceding epoch of socialist modernity is deemed a vital element of social transformation of the nation back towards the “tradition.” In Slovenia, Catholic Church, in collaboration with right-wing nationalist parties, has been a central voice in disseminating the idea of the alleged socialist gender excess, and its deviation from the historical norm. The analysis focuses on selected art projects which became targets of moral outrage to outline these broader political implications hidden beneath the attempts to scandalize arts and its cultural alternatives to post-socialist patriarchy.

• Language: English
• Keywords: gender, post-socialism, art scandals, historical revisionism, memory, identity, moral majority
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FF - Faculty of Arts
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Publication date: 19.03.2026
• Year: 2026
• Number of pages: Str. 1-15
• Numbering: Vol. , iss.
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-182123
• UDC: 316.7
• ISSN on article: 1462-317X
• DOI: 10.1080/1462317X.2026.2644744
• COBISS.SI-ID: 274165763
• Publication date in RUL: 24.04.2026

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Political theology
• Publisher: Sheffield Academic Press
• ISSN: 1462-317X
• COBISS.SI-ID: 2734471

Licences

• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Description: This is the standard Creative Commons license that gives others maximum freedom to do what they want with the work as long as they credit the author.

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: spol, postsocializem, umetnost, škandali, zgodovinski revizionizem, spomin, identiteta, moralna večina