November 2015
Promotion of the publication: "Gender Stereotypes: Sounds Familiar?" Sarajevo
TPO Foundation, Sarajevo organized the promotion of the publication "Gender Stereotypes: Sounds Familiar?” The promotion was organized in cooperation with the Faculty of Political Sciences in Sarajevo. The promotion was held at the Faculty of Political Sciences in Sarajevo on 26.11.2015 at 12 pm within the international campaign “16 Days of Activism against Gender Based Violence”.
The publication "Gender Stereotypes: Sounds Familiar?" is a collection of essays, comments and sketches related to the issue of gender equality in different areas of our society. Also, the publication talks about prejudices about feminism and the position of women in the contemporary society in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Also, the publication represents a unique combination of educational comic books with shorter thematic texts that deals with different gender, feminist issues and aspects related to education, and the patriarchal family values, law, science, religion, politics, the media, domestic violence and many other gender-based discriminatory practices.
The promotion was led and organized by Monja Suta - Hibert, a project coordinator of TPO Foundation and an editor of the publication "Gender Stereotypes: Sounds Familiar?"
On the promotion speakers who addressed the audience were an assistant professor Lejla Music, Jasmina Causevic, one of the authors of this
publication, Jakov Causevic, the authorof the drawings shown in the publication. On that occasion, the assistant professor Music said: “The publication “Gender Stereotypes: Sounds Familiar?” edited by Monja Suta-Hibert shows the deconstruction of the traditional approach towards understanding of gender relations through multidimensional perspectives using various artistic and stylistic methods and expressions via essayistic approach, comics, discussions analysis and reviews on statistic data offering the display of various problems young people are faced with through 13 short stories and reviews moving the focus towards multiple layers of misogynist issues in gender relations, particularly those invisible dimensions in which violation of women human rights flourishes and rises. This author work is an extremely creative work of young authors’ group and it represents a useful place of finding ideas, directions, stories and new revelations on gender relations and stereotypes an due to that reason it is very welcome and useful author realization for the readership of all generations in the whole B&H and speaking area of this region, so in that sense I warmly and delightfully recommend this publication with gratitude to authors for the useful educative publication wishing their publication comes to life and brings new and new titles, particularly in the area of gender studies.”