SHAPING THE AGENDA: FEMINIST STRATEGIES OF CIVIC AND POLITICAL ACTION IN POST-COMMUNISM
More than 20 years after the 1989 Revolution, the Romanian society continues to be patriarchal – and implicitly less democratic for women. This fact becomes more obvious if one looks towards the political sphere and at the way in which women’s interests are represented at the political decision l...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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National University of Political Science and Public Administration, Bucharest
2013-12-01
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| Series: | Romanian Journal of Society and Politics |
| Online Access: | http://rjsp.politice.ro/files/December2013/neaga.pdf |
| Summary: | More than 20 years after the 1989 Revolution, the Romanian society
continues to be patriarchal – and implicitly less democratic for women. This
fact becomes more obvious if one looks towards the political sphere and at the
way in which women’s interests are represented at the political decision level.
In this social environment, civil society and especially the feminist movement
have a particularly important role in terms of promoting women’s specific
civic and political agendas.
Our paper is an exploratory investigation of the strategies of political
and civic actions used by the feminist movement in Romania during the postcommunist
period. We will try to identify and categorize these strategies. Our
aim is to explore a way of formulating a sort of typology (a methodological
exploration) of the civil and political models of action used by five Romanian
feminist NGOs, while trying to assess their activity. This study is one of a
prospective nature, in other words, it is not an exhaustive attempt to analyze
the entire specter of feminist organizations, but rather an attempt to test
the methodological apparatus and to adapt the theoretical framework to the
realities found in the field. |
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| ISSN: | 1582-5795 2393-3224 |