Gender Analysis and Gender Ideology: Gender Studies in Romania
Gender Analysis and Gender Ideology: Gender Studies in Romania

Summary/Abstract: Gender studies has achieved a unique position of dubious notoriety in Romania. Within twenty- five years, it went from being unknown and not having even a terminology in Romanian to becoming a presumed threat to the morality of young people and a form of political “proselytism.” To understand this trajectory, I present a series of historical examples to illustrate how gender norms and gender ideologies have shaped social, economic, and political reality for people in Romania. I follow that historical framework with a short of narrative about the development of gender studies as a formal inter-discipline. My focus turns next to the question of how gender studies has been integrated with other academic disciplines and with policy making. My conclusions will focus primarily on what could be gained through the continued development of gender studies as a scholarly field recognized and supported by the academic community in Romania.

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