Transnational Entanglements: Feminism, Nationalism, and the Limits of Solidarity in Interwar Romania
Transnational Entanglements: Feminism, Nationalism, and the Limits of Solidarity in Interwar Romania

Summary/Abstract: This essay places in conversation the words and actions of feminists in interwar Romania with partners in the Little Entente of Women (LEW) through the lens of their layered solidarities. Romanian feminists moved between the local and regional, the national and transnational, in part through the LEW. As a network with a presence in many countries of East-Central Europe and the Balkans for most of the interwar period, the LEW presents an excellent opportunity for exploring the entanglements of internal, regional, and transnational developments of women’s activism. By focusing on the work done by the main participants from Romania in the LEW, The National Council of Romanian Women (NCRW), regarding minoritized women, I show the lost opportunities and limitations that the LEW offered as a platform for national and international activism on behalf of gender justice.

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