REFRAMING GENDER IDENTITIES AND DISCOURSES IN POSTCOMMUNIST ROMANIA
REFRAMING GENDER IDENTITIES AND DISCOURSES IN POSTCOMMUNIST ROMANIA

Summary/Abstract: The fall of communism at the beginning of the ‘90 inaugurated an important process of renegotiation and adaptation of collective identities. The main aim of this research is to analyse the restructuration of gender identities in post-communist Romania through the filter of two interconnected phenomena: the deconstruction of communist residual clichés and the reconstruction of new gender symbolic frames. Thus, the reconstruction and deconstruction of gender identity were influenced by the intervention of two essential factors: resurrection of a traditionalist culture and survival of cryptic or hybrid fragments of totalitarian gender stereotypes. The study intends to identify the fundamental features of such process and to reveal its consequences over the general phenomenon of reshaping collective symbolism inside transitional societies.

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