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Femeile în spațiul politic din România postcomunistă: De la „jocul” politic la construcția socială
Women within the political space of post-Communist Romania: From the political “game” to social construction
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Abstract The article investigates the political mechanisms specific to contemporary Romanian politics and political parties, as well as those social representations related to gender roles and the
definition of family that have contributed to maintaining a low level of women participation in
Romanian polit... view more
The article investigates the political mechanisms specific to contemporary Romanian politics and political parties, as well as those social representations related to gender roles and the
definition of family that have contributed to maintaining a low level of women participation in
Romanian politics after 1989. In a first part, it sets the conceptual context through a review of the
main theoretical approaches for the political representation of women, with an emphasis on
gender studies’ cognitive dimension. Second, it connects a quantitative evaluation of women’s
presence in the Romanian post communist parliament with a qualitative analysis of public (i.e.
mass media) discourse of the rejected legislative proposal to introduce gender quotas in various
political and social processes. The author finds that, beyond the dynamics of political elites’
recruitment and the functioning of the political “game”, the ideological options and social
representations that emphasize the differences between men and women, as well the central role
of family in building gender roles play an essential part in maintaining a low number of women
within the Parliament.... view less
Keywords
women's policy; gender mainstreaming; gender; post-communist society; gender studies; social construction; Romania; historical development; social process; political development
Classification
Women's Studies, Feminist Studies, Gender Studies
Political Process, Elections, Political Sociology, Political Culture
Method
qualitative empirical; quantitative empirical
Document language
Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
Publication Year
2012
Page/Pages
p. 87-95
Journal
Annals of the University of Bucharest / Political science series, 14 (2012) 2
ISSN
1582-2486
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works