Identitätsentwürfe Von Roma-Frauen Aus Timişoara - Stereotypen Von Partnerschaft, Ehe Und Sexualität
Identity Constructions of the Romani Women in Timisoara. Stereotypes Regarding Paternity, Marriage and Sexuality

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of this study is to investigate the interplay of ethno-cultural stereotypes in processes of identity construction by studying auto-stereotypes and hetero-stereotypes of relationship, sexuality and marriage among individual Romani women in western Romania. Following an ethnographical methodology – problem focused guided interviews within the framework of three-month participant observation – the hermeneutical analysis suggests that Romani women are reorganizing the mostly negative hetero-stereotypes in order to create and maintain flexible pictures of the self. However, their heterogeneous identity constructions also reflect fundamental cultural notions of the gendered and ethnicized self. Consistent with anthropological approaches to the intersection of social categories in every-day lives, the results furthermore mirror the interdependency of ethnicity, gender and class within the Romani women’s discursive constructions of identity.

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