GENDER IDENTITIES IN RURAL ROMANIA. PART II: WOMEN PASSING THEIR LEGACY
GENDER IDENTITIES IN RURAL ROMANIA. PART II: WOMEN PASSING THEIR LEGACY

Summary/Abstract: The study is grounded on an extended research project, concerning the trends in recovery and transmission of cultural memory of women living in rural Romania, reinvention of the peasant identities being discussed both in terms of socialist and post-communist transformations. The second part of the research address the mechanisms for production and transmission of gender memory within Romanian plain villages, with a peculiar focus on the complex interdependencies arose nowadays amid landownership, social identity and women’s autonomy. By narrowing the research frame to a study case disclosing a complex historical legacy, it is intended to highlight the influences exerted by culture in reconstructing the discourses upon identity of several generations of women, living or returning on rural grounds.

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