Feminismul socialist românesc: origini şi manifestări
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Feminismul socialist românesc: origini şi manifestări
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In Romania, feminism enshrined the multiple debt policy for women, universal ‘comrade’ became amid the burial of individual rights, individualism and self-interest. History has so evolved that the ‘ladies’ demanded rights which were not fully given and the ‘comrades’ entered the multiple duties era. The Romanian feminism encouraged a kind of egalitarianism, encouraged women’s participation in the decision-making bodies through the quota systems, but it did all these by counter-selection. The arriving of communism gave prevalence to female workers and peasant women. Educated women, intellectuals, could not have prominence. The female choice criterion was their loyalty to the party, and not their professional qualities; this procedure was applied to men, too. At the same time with taking care of education and children, it imposed an ideological and cultural monopoly. The lack of economic performance produced a society of scarcity, where survival, by impoverished means, was left especially in the women’s care. Later state control reached an absurd level, such as the pro-natal policy, when women lost the freedom to decide on sexuality and reproduction. Thus, since 1966, in Communist Romania, abortion was banned, leading to the death or imprisonment of many women who had illegal abortions, as well as to a large number of abandoned children and orphans. The ideological project of the ‘new man’, without gender features, meant a homogeneous education, denying diversity, attacking male and female values and allocating the party-state discretionary patriarchal power in both spheres.
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ILIE, Magdalena-Ioana. Feminismul socialist românesc: origini şi manifestări. In: Administrarea Publică, 2014, nr. 4(84), pp. 146-150. ISSN 1813-8489.
