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Cultural Continuity and Impediments to Queer Rights in Romania
Description
Romania is in the midst of an identity emergency due to its relatively recent departure from a communist dictatorship. This paper will take a look at identities within Romania while paying close attention to the way that emerging political, economic, religious and gender identities have been and are being used to oppress the Romanian queer population. This paper seeks to justify an application of Western values towards the call for enfranchisement of Romanian queers. Western values, in this sense, will be based on Enlightenment notions of equality in all people and based on philosophers whose writings and paradigms are centered in the Western world. Furthermore, it will discuss violence and masculinity in hopes that understanding and critically examining these topics may be used in application towards the emerging Romanian identities and statistics which highlight and implicate queer oppression. Again, this paper will not seek to definitely link as causal any one emerging identity towards the oppression of the queer minority in Romania nor will it seek to undermine any single Romanian institution, but rather question the correlative elements of Romanian society that may be implicated in potential oppression, violences, and a neglect of the Romanian queer minority.
Date Created
2014-05
Contributors
- Woodmansee, Jon Wessley (Author)
- Montesano, Mark (Thesis director)
- Brake, Elizabeth (Committee member)
- Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor)
- School of Politics and Global Studies (Contributor)
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45 pages
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Academic Year 2013-2014
Handle
https://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.22624
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minimal
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