Motherhood in Romania under Communism: A Personal Perspective
Motherhood in Romania under Communism: A Personal Perspective

Summary/Abstract: This will highlight some personal anecdotes of motherhood in Romania under communism. If the anecdotes at any point signal the hypocrisy of the system and the inconsistency of its policies, this is in no way accidental. The personal experiences to be detailed in this text document the agony of motherhood in a regime of imposition, inadequate health care, pain, humiliation, and shortages. As such they sadly resonate with the many-fold experiences that Mihaela Miroiu and Otilia Dragomir brought to the fore in their volume of 2010 Naşterea. Istorii trăite which spans the interval 1955-2009. The topic can be productively approached also by men when they choose to research women’s experiences under the communists and coordinate a comprehensive volume focusing specifically on the 1970’s and 1980’s: Tovarașe de drum. Experiența feminină în comunism, with Radu Pavel Gheo and Dan Lungu as editors.

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