The Woman's Attitudes during the Anticommunist Resistance Movement
The Woman's Attitudes during the Anticommunist Resistance Movement

Summary/Abstract: If perception on women and their role within a society has evolved during ages, the ever lasting feminine has stand among myths and got confused with artistic works. Reality, which is permanently changing gives the woman more different and dynamic roles that are placed on a value scale, which slides from the housewife or extremely religious to the political feminine character, even the one that has power of decision (queens, prime-ministers etc.) We are trying, as follows, to grasp a few cliches of women's presence within the anticommunist resistance movement and their attitudes during those troubled times in Romania's history. The material we used is constituted mostly of interviews taken by the researchers of the Oral History Institute in Cluj-Napoca, during research campaigns in Rodnei Mountains (1997 - "The White Guard" group), in Banatului Mountains (1998 - that groups leaded by Col. Uţă, commander Domăşneanu, S. Blănaru), in Huedin area (1997-1999 - the groups Capota-Dejeu, Potra-Gheorghiu, and The Susmans' group). The existing rich material would allow us to make a complex psycho­-sociologically oriented analysis on women's behavior, separately, for each area. At this point we will only point out some aspects regarding this matter, as mentioned above...

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