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Anca Dohotariu

University of Bucharest, Facultatea de Stiinte Politice, Faculty Member

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Une categorie sociale entre normes et projets legislatifs: politiques familiales postcommunistes en Roumanie

Among several post-communist legislative projects regarding the family life and the couple, three... more Among several post-communist legislative projects regarding the family life and the couple, three initiatives elaborated in 2002 concerning the co-habitation have occupied a special place. More specifically, the three legislative projects represent different attempts to produce norms on some of the most important aspects of the life beyond the marriage. The author analyzes the three initiatives, as well as the empirical evidence provided by interviews realised with the initiators of the projects. Indeed, the article attempts at seizing the complex game of a democratic society, where the social transformations are constantly "followed" by the update of the legislation. Therefore, the study tries to penetrate the stakes and actual tensions in legislative debates concerning the family life and the couple, where the paradoxical trend of marginalising but also emphasizing the importance of the free union seems to be obvious

Le couple, une catégorie politique

The couple is one of the most significant categories of the way that mentalities, social behavior... more The couple is one of the most significant categories of the way that mentalities, social behavior, patterns or practices of everyday life are being redefined in the post-communist period in Romania. Starting from a brief presentation of the state of knowledge about the couple in the Romanian secondary literature, the article focuses on a double deconstruction. First, the author shows that, nowadays, the couple is a discursive category, especially visible through the demographic, legal and also political discourse. Then, life couple is an object of study in the field of political sciences that can provide insights into the overall functioning of the social and political life in the present period of transition

Les politiques familiales: definitions et enjeux epistemologiques dans la litterature de specialite

Perspective Politice, 2011

Avec deux, ne faire qu’un: couple et cohabitation hors mariage dans le postcommunisme roumain

Journal of population studies, 2010

The Evolution of Unmarried Couples Among Young Romanians. A Comparative Investigation: Romania/France, Practices, Representations and Values

Journal of population studies, 2009

Luciana M. Jinga & Florin S

Clio. Femmes, Genre, Histoire, Jun 10, 2015

Une dizaine d'années après la publication du travail de référence écrit par Gail Kligman (The pol... more Une dizaine d'années après la publication du travail de référence écrit par Gail Kligman (The politics of duplicity. Controlling reproduction in Ceauşescu's Romania, 1998), l'ouvrage cidessus, paru en 2011, s'inscrit dans la suite du premier volume publié l'année précédente Politica pronatalistă a regimului Ceaușescu. O perpectivă comparativă (La politique pronataliste du régime Ceauşescu. Une approche comparative), coordonné par Corina Doboş, Luciana Jinga et Florin Soare. Tandis que le livre américain est une ethnographie de la politique de la reproduction pendant le régime de Ceauşescu, les deux volumes roumains présentent une analyse historique de la politique pronataliste du régime

Les enjeux politiques des rapports de sexe: la politique familiale roumaine en contexte européen

Rituals and Religious Holidays and Their Representations among Young Unmarried Couples: A Qualitative Investigation Romania-France

Revista De Cercetare Si Interventie Sociala, 2012

This article presents, on the one hand, two of the major rites of life, i. e. – christening and m... more This article presents, on the one hand, two of the major rites of life, i. e. – christening and marriage, and, on the other hand, two annual religious holidays, i. e. – Easter and Christmas. I am seeking to reveal an aspect that had been less present in the Romanian literature of this field: the religious dimension of the life of a couple. I begin with a qualitative comparison between Romania and France that reveals the way that contemporary conjugality re-defines nowadays. Secondly, the representations of the unmarried couples regarding marriage, christening and religious holidays shall be discussed. The main purpose of this article is to question the thesis found in the most recent Romanian research stating that the commitment of the young people to religious holidays and implicitly to marriage is a matter of faith. However, through the anthropological detour, as a methodological instrument, and starting from a relational theoretical perspective, the analysis of the discourses of ...

Le couple non marié en Roumanie et en France : une approche de sociologie comparée

Depuis plus de trente ans les refiexions internationales sur la famille et la vie privee cherchen... more Depuis plus de trente ans les refiexions internationales sur la famille et la vie privee cherchent a saisir en profondeur les significations, les attentes et les valeurs de reference contemporaines qui organisent la vie en couple. Qu'en est-il en Roumanie ? A la suite d'un regime totalitaire, l'apres 1989 connait des transformations profondes des representations et des pratiques de la vie a deux. Ces transformations, evidemment plus visibles chez les plus jeunes, concernent a la fois le developpement de l'union libre, la progressive emergence des valeurs democratiques, les transformations lentes mais profondes du mariage lui-meme. On dispose pourtant encore de peu de recherches et de donnees qui rendent compte de ces mutations. Cette these presente les resultats de la premiere enquete sociologique dediee au couple non marie en Roumanie. Il s'agit d'un travail comparatif realise a partir de pres d'une centaine d'entretiens a Bucarest et a Marseille. Je...

Parental Leave Provision in Romania between Inherited Tendencies and Legislative Adjustments

Symposion, 2018

This article seeks to identify and analyse the most significant changes regarding parental leave ... more This article seeks to identify and analyse the most significant changes regarding parental leave provision in post-communist Romania, as well as the extent to which its legal adjustments that took place after 1990 reveal both old trends inherited from the former political regime as well as new tendencies influenced by EU norms and directives. Consequently, this article has a twofold structure. First, a brief overview of the main concepts and theoretical approaches to parental leave will allow us to proceed to a proper understanding of the epistemological tools underpinning this research object. Second, this article tackles the numerous legislative changes concerning parental leave that occurred after the fall of the communist regime. Although limited to a single category of research sources, this inquiry is indispensable for analysing the extent to which childcare and the gendered division of parental responsibilities have become real political struggles within the post-communist public agenda in Romania.

The unmarried couple in post-communist Romania: a qualitative sociological approach

The History of the Family, 2015

Over the last few decades, 'new' contemporary couple relationships have been at the heart of inte... more Over the last few decades, 'new' contemporary couple relationships have been at the heart of international research on the cultural meanings and reference values that organize life couple nowadays. What is the situation in Romania? After the fall of the communist regime, the rise and development of new forms of couple relationships (other than the legitimate nuclear family that was widely accepted during the former political regime) have become more and more visible. During the transition to a market economy and pluralistic democracy, the development of living together outside marriage and the progressive spread of democratic values, as well as the slow but deep redefinition of the institution of marriage, have been obvious. Yet there have been insufficient efforts in tracking and reporting these transformations. This article presents some results of the first qualitative sociological investigation dedicated to cohabiting unmarried couples in post-communist Romania. In order to have a greater understanding of cohabitation at a macro level, it first focuses on the way cohabitation is presented in the Romanian demographic literature. Second, the analysis is followed by a micro-level study based on qualitative field research conducted in Bucharest with young people living as part of cohabiting opposite-sex couples.

P a g e | 59 Nannies that Care. An Emergent Socio-Professional Category between Legal Regulations and Working Arrangements

Analize, Journal of Gender and Feminist Studies, 2019

Drawing on qualitative field research conducted in the Bucharest-Ilfov region in 2013, this artic... more Drawing on qualitative field research conducted in the Bucharest-Ilfov region in 2013, this article approaches nannies' working arrangements, understood as either formal or informal paid activities carried out as part of the childcare process. First, we focus on the social, political, and legislative context in which nannies' work emerged and developed. This analysis is necessary for a better understanding of the main factors that influence the current social values and practices regarding childcare in Romania (from our interviewees' point of view, but also in close connection with the hegemonic cultural meanings regarding childcare, parenting, and mothering). Second, we examine nannies' individual choices and professional trajectories as important indicators for the social dynamics of current care working arrangements and gender roles. Our aim was to identify, on the one hand, the reasons behind choosing formal or informal working arrangements and, on the other hand, nannies' social practices, values, and cultural meanings related to (paid) childcare. We thus sought to understand the extent to which, in contemporary Romania, there is (or not) a real social need regarding the professionalisation of an occupation that can most often be identified and observed as informal work.

Le couple non marié en Roumanie et en France : une approche de sociologie comparée

PhD Thesis, EHESS Marseille, 2010

Depuis plus de trente ans les réflexions internationales sur la famille et la vie privée cherchen... more Depuis plus de trente ans les réflexions internationales sur la famille et la vie privée cherchent à saisir en profondeur les significations, les attentes et les valeurs de référence contemporaines qui organisent la vie en couple. Qu’en est-il en Roumanie ? À la suite d’un régime totalitaire, l’après 1989 connaît des transformations profondes des représentations et des pratiques de la vie à deux. Ces transformations, évidemment plus visibles chez les plus jeunes, concernent à la fois le développement de l’union libre, la progressive émergence des valeurs démocratiques, les transformations lentes mais profondes du mariage lui-même. On dispose pourtant encore de peu de recherches et de données qui rendent compte de ces mutations. Cette thèse présente les résultats de la première enquête sociologique dédiée au couple non marié en Roumanie. Résolument ancré dans une perspective empirique, il s’agit d’un travail comparatif réalisé à partir de près d’une centaine d’entretiens à Bucarest et à Marseille. Cette enquête qualitative permet de déceler en profondeur les métamorphoses contemporaines du lien de conjugalité. La manière de partager le quotidien et de gérer tous les aspects qui concernent la communauté de vie, la façon d’administrer les aspects matériels de la vie en couple, les pratiques et les valeurs attachées au mariage et à l’union libre devraient éclairer la manière dont les couples de sexe différent se représentent et investissent la conjugalité : choisissent-ils de s’investir dans la vie à deux sur le modèle de la fusion conjugale ou bien cherchent-ils au contraire à préserver une part importante d’autonomie personnelle ? Je me propose ainsi d’observer comment se redéfinit aujourd’hui la catégorie du couple, et en particulier la façon dont les représentations, les pratiques et les valeurs intègrent la question de l’égalité de sexe, et comment les transformations en cours témoignent de l’inscription de la Roumanie dans un certain sens de l’évolution de la modernité contemporaine. Ce travail s’inscrit dans une enquête comparative Roumanie – France dont l’objet est de saisir les convergences et les divergences d’un pays à l’autre.

La vie à deux hors mariage : du juridique au politique dans le postcommunisme roumain

Politiques sociales et familiales, 2014

Sistemul românesc de securitate socială. O abordare diacronică

«Articuler» vie familiale et vie professionnelle : un objectif européen dans les politiques roumaines de l’égalité des chances?

This article intends to show the distance between work-life balance as a political and social iss... more This article intends to show the distance between work-life balance as a political and social issue at the EU and Romanian level, through the lens of the local gender equality policies following the process of EU accession. The article provides, in its first part, a brief presentation of the main theoretical axes structuring the available literature, followed up by the analysis of the occurrence of the work-life balance issue at the European level. Then the study examines the normative dimension of work-life balance in post-communist Romania, seeking to understand to what extent work-life balance policies have been designed and implemented in the last 25 years.

Family Policies in European Context

by Anca Dohotariu and Amélie Bonnet

thematic journal issue

The unmarried couple in post-communist Romania: a qualitative sociological approach

The History of the Family

Rituals and Religious Holidays and their Representations among Young Unmarried Couples

This article presents, on the one hand, two of the major rites of life, i. e.christening and marr... more This article presents, on the one hand, two of the major rites of life, i. e.christening and marriage, and, on the other hand, two annual religious holidays, i. e. -Easter and Christmas. I am seeking to reveal an aspect that had been less present in the Romanian literature of this field: the religious dimension of the life of a couple. I begin with a qualitative comparison between Romania and France that reveals the way that contemporary conjugality re-defines nowadays. Secondly, the representations of the unmarried couples regarding marriage, christening and religious holidays shall be discussed. The main purpose of this article is to question the thesis found in the most recent Romanian research stating that the commitment of the young people to religious holidays and implicitly to marriage is a matter of faith. However, through the anthropological detour, as a methodological instrument, and starting from a relational theoretical perspective, the analysis of the discourses of Bucharest and Marseille youth reveals the dynamic nature of their social life. Thus, the commitment of the Romanian young people to religious holidays, marriage and christening as social norms are rather a manifestation of their belonging to a family and to a specific social life in the broad sense of the term within a general context characterized by emergence of freedom and equality as democratic values.

Books by Anca Dohotariu

Anca Dohotariu (coord.) Familia în România, între social şi politic. O incursiune diacronică pluridisciplinară, Ed Universitatii din Bucuresti, 2017, 271p. ISBN 978-606-16-0937-6

Ce este, de fapt, familia? Cum o putem defini? De ce, spre deosebire de un cuplu căsătorit, unul ... more Ce este, de fapt, familia? Cum o putem defini? De ce, spre deosebire de un cuplu căsătorit, unul necăsătorit şi fără copii, nu reprezintă o familie? Care sunt, mai precis, caracteristicile instituției familiale în România? Şi în ce măsură aceasta este, în spațiul socio-politic autohton, un vector şi/sau un revelator al valorilor şi practicilor democratice privind libertatea şi egalitatea de gen? Pornind de de la aceste întrebări preliminare, în aparență simple, dar care ne invită la o reflecție nuanțată și pluridisciplinară, s-a născut ideea acestui volum colectiv. În contextul dezbaterilor publice actuale, apariția acestuia se impune mai mult decât oricând. Totuşi, lucrarea nu urmăreşte să abordeze în mod exhaustiv familia ca obiect de studiu şi nici nu se doreşte a fi o simplă sinteză pe aceasta temă. Dimpotrivă, această publicație este cu precădere o invitație la analiză, cu scopul major de a deconstrui prenoțiunile şi prejudecățile care acaparează discursul comun cu privire la instituția familială.

CUPRINS:

Cuvânt introductiv (Anca DOHOTARIU) / p.7

Familia ca obiect de studiu - de la abordările epistemologice consacrate la lucrările de specialitate din România (Anca DOHOTARIU) / p.13

Asistenţa socială a femeii văduve în Principatele Române (prima jumătate a secolului al XIX-lea) (Ligia LIVADĂ-CADESCHI) / p.39

Familia – „molecula” societății și stâlpul națiunii. O incursiune în universul ideologic și normativ al secolului al XIX-lea românesc (Ionela BĂLUȚĂ) / p. 63

Prostituție feminină şi heterosexualitate în România interbelică (Lucian DĂRĂMUŞ) / p.91

Emoțiuni mecanice: familia femeii muncitoare din urbanul românesc în anchetele sociale și sanitare interbelice (1924-1939) (Alexandra GHIȚ) / p.121

Politicile caloriei: standard de viață, alimentație și legături de familie în România la jumătatea secolului al XX-lea (Mara MĂRGINEAN) / p.161

„Pentru sănătatea femeii!”: elemente ale discursului medical asupra întreruperii de sarcină în România comunistă, 1962-1966 (Corina DOBOȘ) / p. 191

Relaţiile patrimoniale dintre soţi în România (Anca Monica ARDELEANU) / p. 229

Date despre autori / p.267

Une categorie sociale entre normes et projets legislatifs: politiques familiales postcommunistes en Roumanie

Among several post-communist legislative projects regarding the family life and the couple, three... more Among several post-communist legislative projects regarding the family life and the couple, three initiatives elaborated in 2002 concerning the co-habitation have occupied a special place. More specifically, the three legislative projects represent different attempts to produce norms on some of the most important aspects of the life beyond the marriage. The author analyzes the three initiatives, as well as the empirical evidence provided by interviews realised with the initiators of the projects. Indeed, the article attempts at seizing the complex game of a democratic society, where the social transformations are constantly "followed" by the update of the legislation. Therefore, the study tries to penetrate the stakes and actual tensions in legislative debates concerning the family life and the couple, where the paradoxical trend of marginalising but also emphasizing the importance of the free union seems to be obvious

Le couple, une catégorie politique

The couple is one of the most significant categories of the way that mentalities, social behavior... more The couple is one of the most significant categories of the way that mentalities, social behavior, patterns or practices of everyday life are being redefined in the post-communist period in Romania. Starting from a brief presentation of the state of knowledge about the couple in the Romanian secondary literature, the article focuses on a double deconstruction. First, the author shows that, nowadays, the couple is a discursive category, especially visible through the demographic, legal and also political discourse. Then, life couple is an object of study in the field of political sciences that can provide insights into the overall functioning of the social and political life in the present period of transition

Les politiques familiales: definitions et enjeux epistemologiques dans la litterature de specialite

Perspective Politice, 2011

Avec deux, ne faire qu’un: couple et cohabitation hors mariage dans le postcommunisme roumain

Journal of population studies, 2010

The Evolution of Unmarried Couples Among Young Romanians. A Comparative Investigation: Romania/France, Practices, Representations and Values

Journal of population studies, 2009

Luciana M. Jinga & Florin S

Clio. Femmes, Genre, Histoire, Jun 10, 2015

Une dizaine d'années après la publication du travail de référence écrit par Gail Kligman (The pol... more Une dizaine d'années après la publication du travail de référence écrit par Gail Kligman (The politics of duplicity. Controlling reproduction in Ceauşescu's Romania, 1998), l'ouvrage cidessus, paru en 2011, s'inscrit dans la suite du premier volume publié l'année précédente Politica pronatalistă a regimului Ceaușescu. O perpectivă comparativă (La politique pronataliste du régime Ceauşescu. Une approche comparative), coordonné par Corina Doboş, Luciana Jinga et Florin Soare. Tandis que le livre américain est une ethnographie de la politique de la reproduction pendant le régime de Ceauşescu, les deux volumes roumains présentent une analyse historique de la politique pronataliste du régime

Les enjeux politiques des rapports de sexe: la politique familiale roumaine en contexte européen

Rituals and Religious Holidays and Their Representations among Young Unmarried Couples: A Qualitative Investigation Romania-France

Revista De Cercetare Si Interventie Sociala, 2012

This article presents, on the one hand, two of the major rites of life, i. e. – christening and m... more This article presents, on the one hand, two of the major rites of life, i. e. – christening and marriage, and, on the other hand, two annual religious holidays, i. e. – Easter and Christmas. I am seeking to reveal an aspect that had been less present in the Romanian literature of this field: the religious dimension of the life of a couple. I begin with a qualitative comparison between Romania and France that reveals the way that contemporary conjugality re-defines nowadays. Secondly, the representations of the unmarried couples regarding marriage, christening and religious holidays shall be discussed. The main purpose of this article is to question the thesis found in the most recent Romanian research stating that the commitment of the young people to religious holidays and implicitly to marriage is a matter of faith. However, through the anthropological detour, as a methodological instrument, and starting from a relational theoretical perspective, the analysis of the discourses of ...

Le couple non marié en Roumanie et en France : une approche de sociologie comparée

Depuis plus de trente ans les refiexions internationales sur la famille et la vie privee cherchen... more Depuis plus de trente ans les refiexions internationales sur la famille et la vie privee cherchent a saisir en profondeur les significations, les attentes et les valeurs de reference contemporaines qui organisent la vie en couple. Qu'en est-il en Roumanie ? A la suite d'un regime totalitaire, l'apres 1989 connait des transformations profondes des representations et des pratiques de la vie a deux. Ces transformations, evidemment plus visibles chez les plus jeunes, concernent a la fois le developpement de l'union libre, la progressive emergence des valeurs democratiques, les transformations lentes mais profondes du mariage lui-meme. On dispose pourtant encore de peu de recherches et de donnees qui rendent compte de ces mutations. Cette these presente les resultats de la premiere enquete sociologique dediee au couple non marie en Roumanie. Il s'agit d'un travail comparatif realise a partir de pres d'une centaine d'entretiens a Bucarest et a Marseille. Je...

Parental Leave Provision in Romania between Inherited Tendencies and Legislative Adjustments

Symposion, 2018

This article seeks to identify and analyse the most significant changes regarding parental leave ... more This article seeks to identify and analyse the most significant changes regarding parental leave provision in post-communist Romania, as well as the extent to which its legal adjustments that took place after 1990 reveal both old trends inherited from the former political regime as well as new tendencies influenced by EU norms and directives. Consequently, this article has a twofold structure. First, a brief overview of the main concepts and theoretical approaches to parental leave will allow us to proceed to a proper understanding of the epistemological tools underpinning this research object. Second, this article tackles the numerous legislative changes concerning parental leave that occurred after the fall of the communist regime. Although limited to a single category of research sources, this inquiry is indispensable for analysing the extent to which childcare and the gendered division of parental responsibilities have become real political struggles within the post-communist public agenda in Romania.

The unmarried couple in post-communist Romania: a qualitative sociological approach

The History of the Family, 2015

Over the last few decades, 'new' contemporary couple relationships have been at the heart of inte... more Over the last few decades, 'new' contemporary couple relationships have been at the heart of international research on the cultural meanings and reference values that organize life couple nowadays. What is the situation in Romania? After the fall of the communist regime, the rise and development of new forms of couple relationships (other than the legitimate nuclear family that was widely accepted during the former political regime) have become more and more visible. During the transition to a market economy and pluralistic democracy, the development of living together outside marriage and the progressive spread of democratic values, as well as the slow but deep redefinition of the institution of marriage, have been obvious. Yet there have been insufficient efforts in tracking and reporting these transformations. This article presents some results of the first qualitative sociological investigation dedicated to cohabiting unmarried couples in post-communist Romania. In order to have a greater understanding of cohabitation at a macro level, it first focuses on the way cohabitation is presented in the Romanian demographic literature. Second, the analysis is followed by a micro-level study based on qualitative field research conducted in Bucharest with young people living as part of cohabiting opposite-sex couples.

P a g e | 59 Nannies that Care. An Emergent Socio-Professional Category between Legal Regulations and Working Arrangements

Analize, Journal of Gender and Feminist Studies, 2019

Drawing on qualitative field research conducted in the Bucharest-Ilfov region in 2013, this artic... more Drawing on qualitative field research conducted in the Bucharest-Ilfov region in 2013, this article approaches nannies' working arrangements, understood as either formal or informal paid activities carried out as part of the childcare process. First, we focus on the social, political, and legislative context in which nannies' work emerged and developed. This analysis is necessary for a better understanding of the main factors that influence the current social values and practices regarding childcare in Romania (from our interviewees' point of view, but also in close connection with the hegemonic cultural meanings regarding childcare, parenting, and mothering). Second, we examine nannies' individual choices and professional trajectories as important indicators for the social dynamics of current care working arrangements and gender roles. Our aim was to identify, on the one hand, the reasons behind choosing formal or informal working arrangements and, on the other hand, nannies' social practices, values, and cultural meanings related to (paid) childcare. We thus sought to understand the extent to which, in contemporary Romania, there is (or not) a real social need regarding the professionalisation of an occupation that can most often be identified and observed as informal work.

Le couple non marié en Roumanie et en France : une approche de sociologie comparée

PhD Thesis, EHESS Marseille, 2010

Depuis plus de trente ans les réflexions internationales sur la famille et la vie privée cherchen... more Depuis plus de trente ans les réflexions internationales sur la famille et la vie privée cherchent à saisir en profondeur les significations, les attentes et les valeurs de référence contemporaines qui organisent la vie en couple. Qu’en est-il en Roumanie ? À la suite d’un régime totalitaire, l’après 1989 connaît des transformations profondes des représentations et des pratiques de la vie à deux. Ces transformations, évidemment plus visibles chez les plus jeunes, concernent à la fois le développement de l’union libre, la progressive émergence des valeurs démocratiques, les transformations lentes mais profondes du mariage lui-même. On dispose pourtant encore de peu de recherches et de données qui rendent compte de ces mutations. Cette thèse présente les résultats de la première enquête sociologique dédiée au couple non marié en Roumanie. Résolument ancré dans une perspective empirique, il s’agit d’un travail comparatif réalisé à partir de près d’une centaine d’entretiens à Bucarest et à Marseille. Cette enquête qualitative permet de déceler en profondeur les métamorphoses contemporaines du lien de conjugalité. La manière de partager le quotidien et de gérer tous les aspects qui concernent la communauté de vie, la façon d’administrer les aspects matériels de la vie en couple, les pratiques et les valeurs attachées au mariage et à l’union libre devraient éclairer la manière dont les couples de sexe différent se représentent et investissent la conjugalité : choisissent-ils de s’investir dans la vie à deux sur le modèle de la fusion conjugale ou bien cherchent-ils au contraire à préserver une part importante d’autonomie personnelle ? Je me propose ainsi d’observer comment se redéfinit aujourd’hui la catégorie du couple, et en particulier la façon dont les représentations, les pratiques et les valeurs intègrent la question de l’égalité de sexe, et comment les transformations en cours témoignent de l’inscription de la Roumanie dans un certain sens de l’évolution de la modernité contemporaine. Ce travail s’inscrit dans une enquête comparative Roumanie – France dont l’objet est de saisir les convergences et les divergences d’un pays à l’autre.

La vie à deux hors mariage : du juridique au politique dans le postcommunisme roumain

Politiques sociales et familiales, 2014

Sistemul românesc de securitate socială. O abordare diacronică

«Articuler» vie familiale et vie professionnelle : un objectif européen dans les politiques roumaines de l’égalité des chances?

This article intends to show the distance between work-life balance as a political and social iss... more This article intends to show the distance between work-life balance as a political and social issue at the EU and Romanian level, through the lens of the local gender equality policies following the process of EU accession. The article provides, in its first part, a brief presentation of the main theoretical axes structuring the available literature, followed up by the analysis of the occurrence of the work-life balance issue at the European level. Then the study examines the normative dimension of work-life balance in post-communist Romania, seeking to understand to what extent work-life balance policies have been designed and implemented in the last 25 years.

Family Policies in European Context

by Anca Dohotariu and Amélie Bonnet

thematic journal issue

The unmarried couple in post-communist Romania: a qualitative sociological approach

The History of the Family

Rituals and Religious Holidays and their Representations among Young Unmarried Couples

This article presents, on the one hand, two of the major rites of life, i. e.christening and marr... more This article presents, on the one hand, two of the major rites of life, i. e.christening and marriage, and, on the other hand, two annual religious holidays, i. e. -Easter and Christmas. I am seeking to reveal an aspect that had been less present in the Romanian literature of this field: the religious dimension of the life of a couple. I begin with a qualitative comparison between Romania and France that reveals the way that contemporary conjugality re-defines nowadays. Secondly, the representations of the unmarried couples regarding marriage, christening and religious holidays shall be discussed. The main purpose of this article is to question the thesis found in the most recent Romanian research stating that the commitment of the young people to religious holidays and implicitly to marriage is a matter of faith. However, through the anthropological detour, as a methodological instrument, and starting from a relational theoretical perspective, the analysis of the discourses of Bucharest and Marseille youth reveals the dynamic nature of their social life. Thus, the commitment of the Romanian young people to religious holidays, marriage and christening as social norms are rather a manifestation of their belonging to a family and to a specific social life in the broad sense of the term within a general context characterized by emergence of freedom and equality as democratic values.

Anca Dohotariu (coord.) Familia în România, între social şi politic. O incursiune diacronică pluridisciplinară, Ed Universitatii din Bucuresti, 2017, 271p. ISBN 978-606-16-0937-6

Ce este, de fapt, familia? Cum o putem defini? De ce, spre deosebire de un cuplu căsătorit, unul ... more Ce este, de fapt, familia? Cum o putem defini? De ce, spre deosebire de un cuplu căsătorit, unul necăsătorit şi fără copii, nu reprezintă o familie? Care sunt, mai precis, caracteristicile instituției familiale în România? Şi în ce măsură aceasta este, în spațiul socio-politic autohton, un vector şi/sau un revelator al valorilor şi practicilor democratice privind libertatea şi egalitatea de gen? Pornind de de la aceste întrebări preliminare, în aparență simple, dar care ne invită la o reflecție nuanțată și pluridisciplinară, s-a născut ideea acestui volum colectiv. În contextul dezbaterilor publice actuale, apariția acestuia se impune mai mult decât oricând. Totuşi, lucrarea nu urmăreşte să abordeze în mod exhaustiv familia ca obiect de studiu şi nici nu se doreşte a fi o simplă sinteză pe aceasta temă. Dimpotrivă, această publicație este cu precădere o invitație la analiză, cu scopul major de a deconstrui prenoțiunile şi prejudecățile care acaparează discursul comun cu privire la instituția familială.

CUPRINS:

Cuvânt introductiv (Anca DOHOTARIU) / p.7

Familia ca obiect de studiu - de la abordările epistemologice consacrate la lucrările de specialitate din România (Anca DOHOTARIU) / p.13

Asistenţa socială a femeii văduve în Principatele Române (prima jumătate a secolului al XIX-lea) (Ligia LIVADĂ-CADESCHI) / p.39

Familia – „molecula” societății și stâlpul națiunii. O incursiune în universul ideologic și normativ al secolului al XIX-lea românesc (Ionela BĂLUȚĂ) / p. 63

Prostituție feminină şi heterosexualitate în România interbelică (Lucian DĂRĂMUŞ) / p.91

Emoțiuni mecanice: familia femeii muncitoare din urbanul românesc în anchetele sociale și sanitare interbelice (1924-1939) (Alexandra GHIȚ) / p.121

Politicile caloriei: standard de viață, alimentație și legături de familie în România la jumătatea secolului al XX-lea (Mara MĂRGINEAN) / p.161

„Pentru sănătatea femeii!”: elemente ale discursului medical asupra întreruperii de sarcină în România comunistă, 1962-1966 (Corina DOBOȘ) / p. 191

Relaţiile patrimoniale dintre soţi în România (Anca Monica ARDELEANU) / p. 229

Date despre autori / p.267

Depuis plus de trente ans les réflexions internationales sur la famille et la vie privée cherchen... more Depuis plus de trente ans les réflexions internationales sur la famille et la vie privée cherchent à saisir en profondeur les significations, les attentes et les valeurs de référence contemporaines qui organisent la vie en couple. Qu’en est-il en Roumanie ? À la suite d’un régime totalitaire, l’après 1989 connaît des transformations profondes des représentations et des pratiques de la vie à deux. Ces transformations, évidemment plus visibles chez les plus jeunes, concernent à la fois le développement de l’union libre, la progressive émergence des valeurs démocratiques, les transformations lentes mais profondes du mariage lui-même. On dispose pourtant encore de peu de recherches et de données qui rendent compte de ces mutations. Cette thèse présente les résultats de la première enquête sociologique dédiée au couple non marié en Roumanie. Résolument ancré dans une perspective empirique, il s’agit d’un travail comparatif réalisé à partir de près d’une centaine d’entretiens à Bucarest et à Marseille. Cette enquête qualitative permet de déceler en profondeur les métamorphoses contemporaines du lien de conjugalité. La manière de partager le quotidien et de gérer tous les aspects qui concernent la communauté de vie, la façon d’administrer les aspects matériels de la vie en couple, les pratiques et les valeurs attachées au mariage et à l’union libre devraient éclairer la manière dont les couples de sexe différent se représentent et investissent la conjugalité : choisissent-ils de s’investir dans la vie à deux sur le modèle de la fusion conjugale ou bien cherchent-ils au contraire à préserver une part importante d’autonomie personnelle ? Je me propose ainsi d’observer comment se redéfinit aujourd’hui la catégorie du couple, et en particulier la façon dont les représentations, les pratiques et les valeurs intègrent la question de l’égalité de sexe, et comment les transformations en cours témoignent de l’inscription de la Roumanie dans un certain sens de l’évolution de la modernité contemporaine. Ce travail s’inscrit dans une enquête comparative Roumanie – France dont l’objet est de saisir les convergences et les divergences d’un pays à l’autre.

The aim of this special issue to be published in a high impact journal is to identify and analyse... more The aim of this special issue to be published in a high impact journal is to identify and analyse the struggles in elderly care as a political concern, and thus to map the current elderly care landscape at a national, transnational and also European Union level. Contributions that focus on the influence of the current global pandemic on elder care as a political concern are also welcome, as well as articles that shed light on the various ways in which the pandemic has brought care closer to the center of our attention (as silenced work). More precisely, contributions on different regions of Europe would allow us not only to identify similarities and differences between different parts of the continent (whether integrated or not into the EU), but also to reach a better understanding of the current political struggles and societal stakes that are at the heart of the current transformations of elder care as a universal human activity.