REVIEW: Mihaela Ursa, Adrian Tătăran, and Alexandra Turcu, eds., Zoe, Be a Man! Gender Codes in the Culture of Contemporary Romania
Abstract: The recent publication of the collective volume on gender studies Zoe, fii bărbată! Coduri de Gen în cultura României contemporane / Zoe, be a man! Gender Codes in the culture of contemporary Romania (Paralela 45, 248 pag.) casts light on the different problems regarding gender topics which are embedded in a Romanian local context, highlighting especially the inequality that women have been facing and the possibilities of liberation from within the corrupted, patriarchal matrix, with the studies mainly rooted in second wave feminist theories. The approach of the research conducted in this volume is interdisciplinary, featuring studies with a focus on various subjects in the humanistic field.
Keywords: gender studies, gender equality, gender quotas, literary studies, visual studies, humanities.
Citation suggestion: Lungu, Emilian-Cătălin. “REVIEW: Mihaela Ursa, Adrian Tătăran și Alexandra Turcu, eds., ‘Zoe, fii bărbată! Coduri de gen în cultura României contemporane’.” Transilvania, no. 11-12 (2020): 150-152. https://doi.org/10.51391/trva.2020.12.20.
Ursa, Mihaela, Alexandra Turcu, and Adrian Tătăran, eds. Zoe, fii bărbată! Coduri de gen în cultura României contemporane. Pitești: Paralela 45, 2019.
