Childhood and the Politics of Modern Romania Marina Îngustu, Condiția copilului în România modernă (1859-1914): construcția modernă a copilăriei ca instrument al proiectului național, Cluj-Napoca, Mega, 2025
Childhood and the Politics of Modern Romania Marina Îngustu, Condiția copilului în România modernă (1859-1914): construcția modernă a copilăriei ca instrument al proiectului național, Cluj-Napoca, Mega, 2025

Summary/Abstract: In the edited version of her doctorate thesis, Marina Îngustu investigates how the modern Romanian state has reshaped and reestablished the concept of childhood. Historical and sociological accounts, national projects and laws, legitimate or illegitimate terms, ethnicity and marginality, medical reports and hygiene, educational systems and pedagogies, affectivity and parental archetypes are among the main points explored in order to give a detailed and concentrated view over the condition of children in the years between 1859 and 1914, also to show that the child is the main figure around which the ideology of the modern state has acted. The demonstration of the drifting conceptions of childhood is done through statistics, data, laws and literary texts which, in some cases, were the only written documents at the border between premodernity and modernity.

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