Ambiguous Transitions : : Gender, the State, and Everyday Life in Socialist and Postsocialist Romania / / Jill Massino.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2019
• VerfasserIn: Massino, Jill,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (466 p.)

Focusing on youth, family, work, and consumption, Ambiguous Transitions analyzes the interplay between gender and citizenship postwar Romania. By juxtaposing official sources with oral histories and socialist policies with everyday practices, Jill Massino illuminates the gendered dimensions of socialist modernization and its complex effects on women’s roles, relationships, and identities. Analyzing women as subjects and agents, the book examines how they negotiated the challenges that arose as Romanian society modernized, even as it clung to traditional ideas about gender. Massino concludes by exploring the ambiguities of postsocialism, highlighting how the legacies of the past have shaped politics and women’s lived experiences since 1989.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION Ambiguous Transitions: Gender, the State, and Everyday Life in Romania from Socialism to Postsocialism -- CHAPTER 1 The Times, They Are A-Changin’ Gender, Citizenship, and the Transition to Socialism -- CHAPTER 2 Children of the Revolution: Gender and the (Ab)Normality of Growing Up Socialist -- CHAPTER 3 Career Opportunities: Gender, Work, and Identity -- CHAPTER 4 Love and Marriage: Gender and the Transformation of Marital Roles and Relations -- CHAPTER 5 It’s a Family Affair: Parenthood, Reproductive Politics, and State “Welfare” -- CHAPTER 6 Good Times, Bad Times: Gender, Consumption, and Lifestyle -- CHAPTER 7 Revolution Blues: Gender and the Transformation from Socialism to Pluralism -- Bibliography -- Index