A CONCISE PRESENTATION OF THE FIRST LITERARY MAGANIZES PUBLISHED BY WOMEN WRITERS IN ROMANIA BETWEEN 1878 - 1947

• Main Author: Carmen D. CARAIMAN
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Nicolae Titulescu University Publishing House 2014-05-01
• Series: Challenges of the Knowledge Society
• Subjects: Romanian feminine writing; the first feminine Romanian literary magazines; feminist propaganda; aesthetic value; cultural emancipation of Romanian women.
• Online Access: http://cks.univnt.ro/uploads/cks_2014_articles/index.php?dir=11_Gender_studies%2F&download=CKS+2014_gender_studies_art.099.pdf

In its early days Romanian feminine writing was influenced by the ideals of emancipation that animated the female population of our country. These ideals were shared and spread not only by feminist supporters, though this happened to a large extent, but also by outstanding men of letters (Eugen Lovinescu, Garabet-Ibraileanu and Tudor Vianu and others), who were receptive to the changing status of women in their contemporary society and encouraged it as such. The present paper focuses on what we are going to call “early feminine writing in Romania”, whereby we understand the early days of literature created by women in this country. Our goal is to identify the literary publications that gathered for the first time in Romania women writers who paid a particular interest in literature. Thus, our paper has a documentary value: it presents the main Romanian literary publications edited by the first women writers in our country, the aesthetic ideals promoted and shared by these magazines and the contribution brought by female authors to the wakening and shaping of the taste for writing and for literature amidst Romanian women in general.