Ambiguous Transitions Gender, State, Everyday Life in Socialist Postsocialist Romania

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.

About the author

Jill Massino is Associate Professor of Modern European History at The University of North Carolina, Charlotte.

Product details

• Authors: Jill Massino, Massino Jill
• Publisher: BERGHAHN BOOKS, INC
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 01.07.2025
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous
• EAN: 9781836950707
• ISBN: 978-1-83695-070-7
• Pages: 466
• Subjects: Eastern Europe, European History, HISTORY / Europe / Eastern, HISTORY / Women, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, History: 20th Century to Present; Gender Studies and Sexuality, Gender Studies and Sexuality