

Moreover, her involvement developed the Political Science Curricula in accordance to the Bologna Programme, being a member of the evaluation commission in 1997. In 2001, she had coordinated and the first collection of Gender Studies, Polirom Publishing. She added in the university curricula courses like feminist philosophy at the University of Bucharest, Faculty of Philosophy. In 2000, she instituted the first postdoctoral programme of Political Science in Romania at Faculty of Political Science, National School of Political Studies and Public Administration, Bucharest. She had permanently got actively involved in the society through institutional, civic and mediatic journals regarding philosophy, political science and the process of democratization in Romania. She has also edited or co-edited nine volumes, most of them on feminism and feminist theory. She is the author of twelve books published in Romanian, including Road to Autonomy: Feminist Political Theories (Polirom, 2004), Priceless Women (Polirom 2006) and Convenio: On Women, Nature and Morals (Alternative Publishing House, 1996). Experiența feminină în comunism, with Radu Pavel Gheo and Dan Lungu as editors.Mihaela Miroiu (born 1955 in Hunedoara, Romania) is a Romanian political theorist and feminist philosopher. The topic can be productively approached also by men when they choose to research women’s experiences under the communists and coordinate a comprehensive volume focusing specifically on the 1970’s and 1980’s: Tovarașe de drum. Istorii trăite which spans the interval 1955-2009.


As such they sadly resonate with the many-fold experiences that Mihaela Miroiu and Otilia Dragomir brought to the fore in their volume of 2010 Naşterea. The personal experiences to be detailed in this text document the agony of motherhood in a regime of imposition, inadequate health care, pain, humiliation, and shortages. If the anecdotes at any point signal the hypocrisy of the system and the inconsistency of its policies, this is in no way accidental. Summary/Abstract: This will highlight some personal anecdotes of motherhood in Romania under communism.

Published by: Societatea de Analize Feministe AnA Keywords: motherhood in communist Romania reproduction in communist Romania Subject(s): Gender Studies, History of Communism Motherhood in Romania under Communism: A Personal Perspective Author(s): Mihaela Arsene Motherhood in Romania under Communism: A Personal Perspective
