Identidades corporales de las mujeres Rumanas en España: Del totalitarismo a la falsa libertad

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After the fall of the dictatorship, the female body began to be regarded as a strategy for social mobility. Starting from their own accounts, this study seeks to observe how Romanian women socially presented their bodies over the last years of communist dictatorship and the modifications which came about as women adapted to a changing world (i.e. the post-communist decade), as well as the impact that the experience of migration had on the reconstruction of their identities. Despite claiming in theory to promote sexual equality, the totalitarian doctrine of the Socialist Republic of Romania contradicted it in daily practice. While allegedly suppressing and rocentric values, these were actually reinforced by a paternalistic-oppressive state. Looking after one's appearance did not merit attention in a society forging a discourse in which the prevailing type of woman lacked a feminine identity and whose public image was pushed into the background as soon as she got married and had children.

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Iliescu, C. (2012). Identidades corporales de las mujeres Rumanas en España: Del totalitarismo a la falsa libertad. Revista de Dialectologia y Tradiciones Populares, 67(1), 49–84. https://doi.org/10.3989/rdtp.2012.03

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