“A Modest Soldier in the Great Army of Communists”: Visual Representations of Women in Ceaușescu’s Romania
“A Modest Soldier in the Great Army of Communists”: Visual Representations of Women in Ceaușescu’s Romania

Summary/Abstract: My research investigates, using discourse analysis and visual semiotics, the norms and ideological guidelines of Communist propaganda regarding gender identity and sex roles, as expressed in the magazine Femeia, between 1965-1989. Femeia was, at the time, the official media outlet of the National Council of Women, directly involved in educating and mobilising women. The discourse and visuals of Femeia reinforce the idea that, in fact, women were the collective character of women’s emancipation, as anonymity was crucial in a totalitarian regime that did not tolerate individualism but advocated abnegation, self-sacrifice and devotion.

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