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Apariţia mişcării de emancipare a femeii în Vechiul Regat
The Rising of Women’s Movement in Old Kingdom of Romania

Author(s): Maria-Cristina Ploscă
Subject(s): History
Published by: Editura Altip
Keywords: Old Romanian kingdom; associations and feminist reunions; Womens Leagues Iaşi

Summary/Abstract: In the Old Kingdom of Romania, the mediaeval laws kept their valability until 1865 when Civil Law has appeared that was keeping married women under men’s rule in public duties.Women’s education was included in the 1848 warpath, through the revolutionists also have participated Ana Ipătescu, Maria Rosetti, Sevastiţa Bălcescu and Zoe Golescu. But women have been part of the national effort during the Independence war through the women’s committees who have been organised many fundraisings.The first law project who was opening a narrow way do women make possible the participation of women to local elections. This law project was adopted in 1878.During the period of late 1890’s there were been created a few kind of women societies:1) Societies of beneficence, help or charity.2) Societies of economic, social, legal or politic emancipation.3) Educational societies.4) Red Cross leagues.5) Societies of feminists nationalities who lived in Old Romanian Kingdom.The Women’s League has had a very important activity in Iaşi, where it have been organised first association under the name of Women’s Reunion of Iaşi been runned by Cornelia Emilian. Another association was settled also in Iaşi in 1908, as Honorary President been elected Emilia Humpel. Aneta Socor, Tereza Stratilescu, Maria Buţureanu have been elected in the ruler committee.In Bucovina the women’s association were organised after the Transylvanian ones, the first ones have been organised in Cernăuţi.

  • Issue Year: 2013
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 339-344
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: English, Romanian