Ambiguous Transitions

Gender, the State, and Everyday Life in Socialist and Postsocialist Romania
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-78533-598-3
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 466 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 820 g

Focusing on youth, family, work, and consumption, Ambiguous Transitions analyzes the interplay between gender and citizenship postwar Romania. By juxtaposing official sources with oral histories and socialist policies with everyday practices, Jill Massino illuminates the gendered dimensions of socialist modernization and its complex effects on women’s roles, relationships, and identities. Analyzing women as subjects and agents, the book examines how they negotiated the challenges that arose as Romanian society modernized, even as it clung to traditional ideas about gender. Massino concludes by exploring the ambiguities of postsocialism, highlighting how the legacies of the past have shaped politics and women’s lived experiences since 1989.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Massino, Jill

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Sozialethnologie: Familie, Gender, Soziale Gruppen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Transformationsprozesse (Politikwiss.)
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Globalisierung, Transformationsprozesse
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Politische Ethnologie, Recht, Organisation, Identität
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Materielle Kultur, Wirtschaftsethnologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Ambiguous Transitions: Gender, the State, and Everyday Life in Romania from Socialism to Postsocialism

Chapter 1. The Times, They Are A-Changin’: Gender, Citizenship, and the Transition to Socialism

Chapter 2. Children of the Revolution: Gender and the (Ab)Normality of Growing Up Socialist

Chapter 3. Career Opportunities: Gender, Work, and Identity

Chapter 4. Love and Marriage: Gender and the Transformation of Marital Roles and Relations

Chapter 5. It’s a Family Affair: Parenthood, Reproductive Politics, and State “Welfare”

Chapter 6. Good Times, Bad Times: Gender, Consumption, and Lifestyle

Chapter 7. Revolution Blues: Gender and the Transformation from Socialism to Pluralism

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Massino, Jill
Jill Massino is Associate Professor of Modern European History at The University of North Carolina, Charlotte.

Jill Massino is Associate Professor of Modern European History at The University of North Carolina, Charlotte.