Women’s Role In “Popular Democracies”. Mobilization Without Emancipation?
Women’s Role In “Popular Democracies”. Mobilization Without Emancipation?
Author(s): Petruţa TeampăuSubject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Political Sciences, Gender history
Published by: Editura Universităţii din Bucureşti
Keywords: Women; Communism; Femeia; Emancipation; Ideology.
Summary/Abstract: In this paper I analyse the complex set of roles assigned to women under socialist ideology, as workers, mothers, and activists. I examine Femeia magazine, using discourse analysis, to understand how these roles were discursively constructed and disseminated in the period 1965-1979. I argue that women’s emancipation was rather a mobilizing movement and ideology imposed from above, but still, there was space for re-negotiating some aspects in women’s lives and forging a new identity.
Journal: Analele Universităţii din Bucureşti. Seria Ştiinţe Politice
- Issue Year: XIX/2017
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 31-53
- Page Count: 23
- Language: English