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- Title
FEMINISM AND ANTIFEMINISM IN ROMANIAN THEATRE CRITICISM IN INTERWAR YEARS.
- Authors
RUNCAN, Miruna
- Abstract
In Romania, during the interwar years, it seems that theatre reviews - much like theatre criticism in general, narrowly as it was and sometimes continues to be defined in Romania - was only considered legitimate if signed by men. There were but two timid exceptions, two female voices whose writings were partially recovered as late as 1978-1983 and have been insufficiently explored since: the poet and memoirist Otilia Cazimir, who worked as an inspector for the Ministry of Arts' Theatre Directorate for a decade, and the aesthetics professor Alice Voinescu. This paper is an attempt to turn the spotlight not onto the two writers' theatre-related activity, but rather to the way they engaged, in writing or in action, with the thorny issues of feminism. Their opposing standpoints - a feminism of emancipation vs. an anti-feminist type of feminism - still proves emblematic to our day for the specific way in which socio-cultural mentalities and perceptions on women's condition in 20th-century Romania were preserved; it appears that post-socialist theatre criticism, especially from the decade 2000-2010, coalesced around the same positions.
- Subjects
ROMANIA; DRAMATIC criticism; ANTI-feminism; FEMINISM; INTERWAR Period (1918-1939); ROMANIANS
- Publication
Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies & Theory, 2024, Vol 10, Issue 1, p216
- ISSN
2457-8827
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.24193/mjcst.2024.17.12