FSP - Gender Studies

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Family background, gender and reading achievement in Romania
(Fundatia 'Orient Expres', 2015) Țoc, Sebastian; Gheba, Andreea
In the last years, Romania formally tried to overcome the problems related to inequality of opportunity in education. This paper examines the role of home resources and gender in determining academic performance. Based on secondary data drawn from Progress in International Reading Literacy Study we suggest that both gender and home resources have a significant impact on the reading achievement of students. The existing work operationalizes the differences in reading achievement as an indicator for life chances, being proportional with economic success later in life. Our findings contradict ideas about equality of opportunity promoted by the official curriculum regarding the individual merit as the main factor that places students in privileged social positions.
Illiberal discourse in Romania : a “Golden” new beginning?
(Cogitatio Press, 2022) Dragolea, Alina
While interest in illiberalism has increased in recent years, the study of the connections between anti-gender discourse and transnational dissemination is a more recent scholarly endeavour. Emerging feminist scholarship has helped to move beyond national cases of illiberalism to understand how the gendered nature of illiberalism is revealed through its ability to cross borders and, in recent years, to become a movement with a transnational character. This article examines the evolution of the political discourse on gender in Romania and proposes a three-stage framework leading from gender traditionalism to a more pronounced illiberal discourse. The article examines whether the recent rise of the political party Alliance for the Union of Romanians (Alianța pentru Unirea României, AUR) represents a new step towards an established political illiberal discourse in Romania. The official public addresses of AUR are analysed to show how the terminology and themes identified as cornerstones of illiberalism (e.g., anti-gender, traditional family, opposition to reproductive rights, education, and anti-LGBTQ) are incorporated into its rhetoric.
Political parties, women’s organizations and gender quota
(Tritonic, 2015) Dragolea, Alina
Across the world more and more states establish some form of gender quotas. Even in states that were reluctant to have any form of “preferential” treatment for women (such as were the Central and Eastern Europe countries) the combination between a favorable gender equality climate, women’s mobilization and political parties’ will has led to 15 states establishing quotas. Romania has only (inefficient) voluntary political parties’ quotas and one of the lowest levels of women elected worldwide. When quotas are needed who and why can be more successful in pushing for their establishment? This article’s thesis is that women’s organizations inside political parties can be successful in their mobilization to establish quotas because they can use both pragmatic and normative reasons.
Strategies of Adaptation: Post-Socialist Transformations of Romanian Women's Football in the 1990s
(Routledge, 2025) Szasz, Ileana Gabriela
The evolution of women's football in Romania during the 1990s was marked by significant socio-economic transformations following the fall of socialism. The abrupt transition to a capitalist economy dismantled the state-supported sports infrastructure, creating profound challenges for women's football. The players adapted to these conditions, utilizing strategies such as securing informal economic arrangements, leveraging social networks, and navigating resource limitations to sustain their careers. Oral histories, interviews with players and coaches, personal archives, and media reports provide insights into how football became an occupational identity. In this process, women negotiated systemic barriers, developing a collective identity while asserting agency within a male-dominated societal framework. The experiences of these athletes offer a deeper understanding of gender, work, and sports in post-socialist Eastern Europe, showcasing how football served as both a site of struggle and a platform for empowerment during a time of societal upheaval.
Where to? Gender studies, epistemic injustice and the politics of de-democratization in Romania
(Bristol University Press, 2025) Băluță, Oana; Băluță, Mihaela
This article examines the 2020 attempt to ban gender studies in Romania, where we played key roles in resistance efforts and were directly targeted by anti-gender activists. We address two research questions: first, ‘How can researchers’ positionality be conceptualized when the authors are targets?’; and, second, ‘How can we integrate our dual roles as researchers and activists in the production of knowledge while also exploring the nature and impact of these attacks?’. We introduce a novel epistemological and ethical framework that integrates reflection on researchers’ positionality and emotions. We conceptualize researchers’ positionality as ‘outsiders within’ in social and academic contexts and epistemic agents at the intersection of research and activism. Using feminist autoethnography, we complement traditional methodologies in studying anti-gender campaigns and far-right mobilizations. This approach allows us to better understand de-democratization dynamics and highlight the persistent epistemic injustices and normalization of violence that these movements perpetuate.
Women's social exclusion and feminisms : living in parallel worlds? : the Romanian case
(LIT Verlag, 2012) Iancu, Alice; Băluță, Oana; Dragolea, Alina; Florian, Bogdan
Eastern feminism and women living in Eastern Europe in the last twenty years have lived their specific distinct realities. While growing gender inequalities affected women during transition, Romanian feminists have faced specific difficulties of their own, both theoretical and practical. How to use Western perspectives to analyze a distinct Romanian gender reality, how to ensure the relevance of analysis through both theoretical positioning and empirical research, these were typical dilemmas during the transition.

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