Working Woman, Wife or Mother? Or Maybe All Three at the Same Time? Cover Image

Női szerepek változásai a magyar és a román államszocializmus idején (1945–1989)
Working Woman, Wife or Mother? Or Maybe All Three at the Same Time?

Author(s): Hajnalka Kovácsné Magyari
Subject(s): Gender history, Post-War period (1950 - 1989)
Published by: Korunk Baráti Társaság
Keywords: state socialism; women’s roles; tractorist girls; emancipation

Summary/Abstract: The ever-changing images of women and their roles are a kind of social construction, closely linked to the political, economic and social changes of the moment. This was no different during the years of state socialism, the impact of which brought radical changes to the traditional roles of women that had been accepted and customary until then. But what was the ideal of the woman under state socialism? What roles were officially propagated and which were socially preferred? Did the official image of women meet the needs and ideas of society? How did these roles change during the decades of state socialism in the Hungarian and Romanian regions?

  • Issue Year: 2022
  • Issue No: 02
  • Page Range: 60-63
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Hungarian
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