Women and Constitution-Making in Post-Communist Romania<span class='bold'>*</span>

Elena Brodeală; Silvia Şuteu

doi:10.1017/9781108686358.003

2 - Women and Constitution-Making in Post-Communist Romania*

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 March 2019

Elena Brodeală and

Silvia Şuteu

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Ruth Rubio-Marín and

Helen Irving

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Ruth Rubio-Marín: Affiliation:
Universidad de Sevilla
Helen Irving: Affiliation:
University of Sydney

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Explores the history of women’s participation in constitution-making in post-communist Romania, and identifies five key ‘constitutional moments’ since 1989, finding that, in none, was a gender agenda explicitly pursued, nor did a critical mass of women, let alone feminists, rise up as key actors in the process of constitution-making or reform. The more recent constitutional moments, however, include a turn to popular participation that has created some space for women’s issues to be debated. Developments post-2015, the authors argue, may yet galvanise activists to engage more deeply with policy-making and to learn to articulate their demands in constitutional terms. To explain these conclusions, the chapter traverses the history of the development of women’s rights in Romania, and provides background on the state of, or rather lack of, a feminist movement in pre-1989 Romania and its very recent fledgling beginnings.

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Information: Women as Constitution-Makers
Case Studies from the New Democratic Era
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