Genre and the (Post-)Communist Woman: Analyzing Transformations of the Central and Eastern European Female Ideal by Florentina C Andreescu & Michael J. Shapiro

Author:Florentina C Andreescu & Michael J. Shapiro [Andreescu, Florentina C & Shapiro, Michael J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Political Science, General, Civics & Citizenship, International Relations, Political Process, Political Parties
ISBN: 9781138013216
Google: KBPUnQEACAAJ
Goodreads: 20606322
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-01-15T09:28:36+00:00

Conclusion

The changes brought about by the collapse of the communist regime in 1989 have affected the ideal of woman in a number of ways and hypostases, including her role as target and instrument of state repression. Whereas, in communist times the women who accepted serving as tools of state repression were seen in positive terms and those who suffered the brunt of these campaigns were negatively depicted, since 1989 former victims have been praised, whereas former victimizers have been denounced. In Romania, key players in fleshing out this discourse of victimization/condemnation have been the male public intellectuals, who act as gatekeepers to the small community of communist-era dissidents and opponents. This chapter has argued that philosopher Gabriel Liiceanu has played the role of a gatekeeper when the cases of Mona Musca, a communist-era secret informer, and Herta Müller, a communist-era victim of the Securitate, have been publicly discussed in 2006 and 2010, respectively. Because of Liiceanu, who depicted her as “the spy of all spies,” Musca’s political capital vanished and she was forced to put an end to her political career, renouncing public office. While facilitating the publication of her books in Romanian translation through the Humanitas press, Liiceanu tried to undermine Müller’s reception in Romania, due to her opposition to the “resistance through culture” model promoted by the Paltinis group, but her international recognition and personal frankness turned the tables in her favor and exposed the intellectuals supportive of passive opposition to criticism for their unwillingness to directly and openly denounce the human rights abuses of the communist regime.

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