Hello! I recently read the book “The Sexual Revolution”, by Wilhelm Reich, published in 1936. Reich was one of Freud’s proteges, who came up with some ‘heretical’ ideas which contradicted his teacher. He was convinced that emotions and politics have a direct impact on our bodies. In “The Sexual Revolution”, Reich explores the reasons why […]
Hello! One of the books I’ve read recently is “Sex at Dawn”, by Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jetha, published in 2010. The book is a fresh perspective on the evolution of humans’ mating systems, and the authors argue that human beings evolved in groups of hunter-gatherers in which sexual interaction was a resource shared within […]
The trajectory of women's struggle against injustice, violence and discrimination often reaches the judiciary system. It is a difficult path in which we have to deal with courts that are not always trained to understand the specific needs of women and to avoid their re-traumatization. For many of us, access to the justice system is […]
Today's girls, along with the boys, will live in a better world if they continue, adapt and assume the aspirations, ideas and involvement of feminist generations before them. Are today's young people willing to claim what is yet to be claimed, to adjust what is yet to be adjusted, to change what is yet to […]
Salut! Hello! I read “The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State: in the Light of the Researches of Lewis H. Morgan”, by Friedrich Engels, published in 1984. The philosophical treatise focuses on the early history of mankind after the disintegration of primitive communities and the emergence of a stratified society, organized in […]
Hello! I read “The Communist Manifesto” by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, published în 1848. The manifesto was the basis of the modern communist movement as we know it. In the manifesto, the two authors talk about how capitalism will inevitably destroy itself, will be replaced with socialism and, in the long run, will become […]
This article is based on the master’s thesis research “Anti-gender movement and political response. The case of Romania”, presented by Carmen Radu/Front Association in September 2019, at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Political Science Department. What is “gender ideology”? The “war on gender ideology” could be schematically defined as a social movement against a broader area […]
AnA Society for Feminist Analyses conducted a research among Romanian high school students to find out their perception of the concept of feminism and the connotations that the term has for them. The processing of 147 questionnaires (81 girls and 61 boys, 5 questionnaires did not have information on sex or name) showed that: This […]
Through education we can change outdated mentalities and build a society in which girls and women have equal opportunities, respect and full rights. Education is the best way to prevent sexism, discrimination and gender-based violence. We are proud to announce that we have started the implementation of the project “EGALIS: gender equality through social change […]
