Căsătoria și palingenezia națională în perioada interbelică
Marriage and national palingenesis in the interwar period

Summary/Abstract: This article explores how marriage was perceived by the Romanian and Hungarian eugenicists in the interwar period and how they attempted to use this "rite of passage" to regenerate the national body and to craft the discourse(s) about a stronger nation. The processes that eugenicist agents intended to use or used in forming the family as the nucleus of the nation, are presented in comparative perspective. My goal is to highlight the differences and especially the similarities between the two eugenic movements. Both movements tried to articulate their discourse based on the previous differences between the national groups they referred to. Even if the present research only covers some theorizations, we can argue that for both Hungarian and Romanian elites these ideas were not just simple theoretical rhetoric speculations. To their mind, they were meant to provide the framework for a possible future experiment concerning their civilization and culture regeneration.

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