SPECTE PRIVIND CONSTITUIREA ȘI ACTIVITATEA SECRETARIATULUI CENTRAL AL FEMEILOR MINORITARE MAGHIARE (ROMÁNIAI MAGYAR KISEBBSÉGI NŐK KÖZPONTI TITKÁRSÁGA) DE LA CLUJ
ASPECTS CONCERNING THE CENTRAL SECRETARIATE OF MINORITAR MAGYAR WOMEN (ROMÁNIAI MAGYAR KISEBBSÉGI NŐK KÖZPONTI TITKÁRSÁGA) SETTIND UP AND ACTIVITY IN CLUJ

Summary/Abstract: The present study aims to frame the history of the Central Secretariate of the Minority Magyar Women (CSMMW), a representative organization of the Magyar women, in a general landscape that allows subsequent thoroughgoing and enlarged studies following the identification of new documents. I have preferred a descriptive narration, framing the main aspects of the CSMMW setting up and activity. Tendency of nationalizing the women’s movement in Romania, as well as the wish of the National Council of Romanian Women to collaborate, as it was expressed by princess Alexandrina Cantacuzino, impelled the CSMMW setting up, assumed in 1925 through organizing the Romanian and Minority Women Congress, Bucharest, 1925. Women of a good experience in the feminist religious or charitable movements were co-opted in CSMMW staff; they better knew the problems of the Magyar minority and particularly, the women’s ones, were good organizers, carrying the necessary vision in directing the organization, able to develop relations inside their community and besides it, working in behalf of their own ethnic group and the women they represented. CSMMW succeeded up to 1929 to gather 107 societies around, the Congress of November 1928 being an important moment within the movement of Magyar women in Romania. The main problems CSMMW focused on consisted in: national identity keeping and strengthening, mother and child carrying in order to preserve the community vigor, needy and ill persons supporting. Woman’ s work, political and civil rights were also taken into account as general features of feminist agenda at the time, all of them being submitted to the interests of Magyar community. A moderate feminism was so practiced by CSMMW, a specific feature in Transylvania were the Magyar minority mainly lived then.

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