At the initiative of Plural Association and AnA – Society for Feminist Analysis, on January 31, 2022, a consultative meeting was held at Intersect Center in Bucharest, on professionalization of gender equality expertise in Romania. The meeting was attended by professor Ionela Băluță, coordinator of the M.A. Programme “Equal Opportunities Policies in Romanian and European […]
Hello! I read “Sex by Design: The Betty Dodson Story”, by Betty Dodson, published in 2016. “Sex By Design” is a memoir, the story of one woman’s fight for the liberation of female sexuality, as well as liberating her own sexuality – and the pleasure that comes with this. Dodson realized that many women aren’t […]
Hello! I’ve read „The Mass Psychology of Fascism”, written by psychiatrist and psychoanalist Wilhelm Reich, published in 1933. In the book, the author tries to work out the way in which fascists accumulate power by politically and ideologically oppressing the masses. In this type of regime, the women are the subordinates of men in hierarchies […]
To support Romanian teachers in understanding the impact they have on shaping an inclusive society, and to offer them suggestions for gender mainstreaming in the classroom, the EGALIS project team is preparing a guide for teaching gender equality in pre-university education. We will announce the launch of the Guide in the coming months. If you want […]
Romania needs more than 100 years to eliminate inequalities between women and men[1] and has even regressed in this area. Gender gaps are particularly prevalent in women's political participation and access to economic opportunities. In this context, there is a pressing need for trained professionals that can work on gender mainstreaming in public institutions and private companies. […]
Hello! I read the essay „Hipster, sinecdocă. Erou al clasei de mijloc sau țap ispășitor” or “Hipster, Synecdoche. Middle Class Hero or Scapegoat”, by Ciprian State, published in 2019, in the book “Hisperi, bobos și clasele creative”, or “Hipster, Bobos and Creative Classes”. The history of Romanian hipsterism can be looked at as the history […]
Hello! I read some of the book “Marxism and the Oppression of Women”, by Lise Vogel, published in 1983. A lot of female authors have added in time to the shaping of an understanding of the role of women in capitalism or of – to put it clearly – a set of marxist-feminist ideas. These […]
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 […]
