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Focusing on youth, family, work, and consumption, Ambiguous Transitions analyzes the interplay between gender and citizenship postwar Romania. By juxtaposing official sources with oral histories and socialist policies with everyday practices, Jill Massino illuminates the gendered dimensions of socialist modernization and its complex effects on women’s roles, relationships, and identities. Analyzing women as subjects and agents, the book examines how they negotiated the challenges that arose as Romanian society modernized, even as it clung to traditional ideas about gender. Massino concludes by exploring the ambiguities of postsocialism, highlighting how the legacies of the past have shaped politics and women’s lived experiences since 1989.

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Ambiguous Transitions provides a significant overview of the history of Romania and of women's issues in Romania, especially under communism. Its combined investigation of oral histories and official publications make for a particularly nuanced analysis. * Oana Popescu-Sandu, University of Southern Indiana This is a valuable academic work that will be of great interest to both scholars and students. Its clear, accessible style recommends it to an even larger audience interested in the history of Communism in Central and Eastern Europe. * Claudia-Florentina Dobre, University of Bucharest

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Jill Massino is Associate Professor of Modern European History at The University of North Carolina, Charlotte.

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