M Bucur
Biographic Data
| ID | 53317 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Bucur |
| GIVEN NAMES | M |
| FAMILY NAME | Bucur |
| SIGNATURE | BUCUR M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indiana University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5143-953X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 44 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 44 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Deafness in the Interwar Romanian Press
This article focuses on the use of the terms “deaf” and “deaf-mute” in the interwar Romanian press to explore the multiplicity of meanings attached to this condition in different types of public discourse. My aim is to place in the larger context of that period what meanings become most prominent in newspapers and other forms of popular press, why, and with what consequences. I offer an exploration of these discourses to better appreciate how the…
Constructing and Deconstructing Disability in Eastern Europe and Russia
The introduction to the cluster on disability history in eastern Europe and Russia provides a framework for situating the three case studies within the larger development of the field. The introduction highlights important themes and arguments presented by the three authors.
O școală unicat
Programul Antidiscriminare al Centrului pentru Resurse Juridice
Introducere
This article introduces the special issue and offers a programmatic critical discussion of the state of disability rights and studies in Romania today. It proposes new language and epistemic frameworks in academic research and invites the readers to become attuned to especially the knowledge offered here by persons with disabilities in the first part of the issue. As allies, we try to model this approach to knowledge making in the second part of …
O școală unicat
Programul Antidiscriminare al Centrului pentru Resurse Juridice
Talking about Invalids
This article examines the discourse about disability in interwar Romania through an intersectional analysis of how war veterans with disabilities and their families were treated in policy and eugenicist medical discourse. My analysis focuses explicitly on gendered aspects of these developments, while highlighting the racialization of identity in relation to rights and responsibilities of individual citizens and the Romanian state’s own duties tow…
A Journey with no Destination
Introduction
The staying power of Katherine Verdery’s insights on gender ideologies in Eastern Europe
The article examines the impact of Katherine Verdery’s work on gender under socialism as exemplified by her article “From parent-state to family patriarchs: Gender and nation in contemporary Eastern Europe.”
The Vanishing Invalid
In Romania after World War I, visual representations of disability became both a necessity and a problem for developing a vocabulary to describe the everyday experience of more than 200,000 disabled veterans who lived in nearly every town and village. By exploring the history and signification of the Last Grenade monument in relation to other visual representations of disabled veterans, the author teases out how disability came to be understood i…
Care for the care takers
This Viewpoint reflects on the opportunity provided by the COVID experience of women as care takers to participate in tending to the refugee crisis unfolding in Europe as a result of the Russia invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022. By recognizing and tapping into the expertise these care takers gained in the past two years, governments in countries hosting refugees could develop long term responses to the specific needs of the refugees, themse…
V ladimir S olonari . A Satellite Empire
Vladimir Solonari’s A Satellite Empire: Romanian Rule in Southwestern Ukraine, 1941–1944 represents a valuable addition to the literature on the eastern front during World War II. Focusing on Bessarabia, Bukovina, and especially Transnistria as sites of Romanian occupation, the study examines the unfolding of the military campaign; the institutions set up to enable a more permanent presence; the policies the Romanian authorities attempted to impl…
Socialist Heritage
Reviewed by: Socialist Heritage: The Politics of Past and Place in Romania by Emanuela Grama Maria Bucur Emanuela Grama. Socialist Heritage: The Politics of Past and Place in Romania. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2019. 268 pp. “Heritage” entrepreneurship has been an important site for constructing legitimacy and accumulating power in the modern world. Though presumably revolutionary in ideology and goals, state socialist regimes have al…
Natalia Milița Geormăneanu
This study uses microhistory as a useful method for gender analysis of the past, with a focus on the life and activities of Milița Geormăneanu, an unknown and yet revealing personality from interwar Romania. As a volunteer in World War I and then activist in a number of areas after the war, Geormăneanu was one of thousands of citizens of Romania who sought to claim benefits and rights on the basis of the new veterans’ administration legislation a…
The History of East European Feminisms Revisited
Historians of East European feminisms have been busy over the past thirty years. Though some interest in this topic began to develop in the 1970s, it did not become a robust field of research until the 1990s, when it took off all over the post-communist world. 1 Thirty years later, scholars in this field have become fully interconnected with other important contemporaneous trends in feminist historiography, especially in the area of transnational…
Brexit
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Constantin Barbulescu, Physicians, Peasants, and Modern Medicine. Imagining Rurality in Romania, 1860–1910
In Physicians, Peasants, and Modern Medicine, Constantin Barbulescu sets out to do a ‘study of social imagology’ (p.3), focusing on how medical doctors in the Romanian kingdom constructed ideas about peasants’ behaviour and values. The book is divided into three parts that engage with, first, Romania through the eyes of doctors; secondly, medical discourse on the peasant and the village; and thirdly, medical culture versus peasant culture. The fi…
The Queen Is No Sister
This essay provides a gender analysis of Queen Marie of Romania’s autobiographical works to ask how we can best make sense of this complex and much discussed historical character during World War I as a woman of her time. My focus will be on her work as a politician/diplomat during the war; her efforts on behalf of the military campaign, particularly medical aid and other related services; and her relationship with the feminists who sought to gai…
Rebellious Parents. Parental Movements in Central-Eastern Europe and Russia
Rebellious Parents. Parental Movements in Central-Eastern Europe and Russia." Europe-Asia Studies, 70(9), pp. 1536–1537
To Have and to Hold
This article focuses on the gendered aspects of the institutional framework surrounding the protection, control over, and transfer of property before 1914 in the area that became Romania in the twentieth century, from inheritance to marriage divorce, dowry, and widowhood. During the period covered here, these territories were part of several distinctive administrative regimes—the Habsburg Empire, Russia, and the Ottoman Empire—that also treated p…
Introduction
From Invisibility to Marginality
This essay enhances the broad context in which Karen Offen's argument is framed by addressing the question of how the humanities are faring today in relation to academic research and learning. I explore what that context means specifically for women's history and vice-versa into the future. Secondly, I provide a historical overview of how women's history in Romania has developed since 1989. My analysis highlights the slow and uneven shift from co…
Gender Hurts. A Feminist Analysis of the Politics of Transgenderism, by Sheila Jeffreys
"Gender Hurts. A Feminist Analysis of the Politics of Transgenderism, by Sheila Jeffreys." Women's History Review, 26(4), pp. 655–656
In Praise of Wellborn Mothers
Treznea
This essay focuses on the relationship between official and vernacular forms of remembering a mass killing of eighty-six civilians that took place on 9 September 1940 at Treznea, a village in the heart of Northern Transylvania, now part of Romania. This region was at that point in the process of being reoccupied by Hungarian troops after the Vienna Award of 31 August 1940. After 1940, the memory of 9 September remained apparently buried yet power…
Natalia Milița Geormăneanu
This study uses microhistory as a useful method for gender analysis of the past, with a focus on the life and activities of Milița Geormăneanu, an unknown and yet revealing personality from interwar Romania. As a volunteer in World War I and then activist in a number of areas after the war, Geormăneanu was one of thousands of citizens of Romania who sought to claim benefits and rights on the basis of the new veterans’ administration legislation a…
From Invisibility to Marginality
This essay enhances the broad context in which Karen Offen's argument is framed by addressing the question of how the humanities are faring today in relation to academic research and learning. I explore what that context means specifically for women's history and vice-versa into the future. Secondly, I provide a historical overview of how women's history in Romania has developed since 1989. My analysis highlights the slow and uneven shift from co…
Women and state socialism
Imagine all history written as if all people, even women, mattered. Until a couple of decades ago, that was at most an aspiration for those of us working on East European history. Since then, however, and especially with the fall of Communism, feminist scholars have made significant inroads toward achieving this goal. This review essay reflects on the contributions made by five such studies that focus on different aspects of women's lives under s…
Of Crosses, Winged Victories, and Eagles
This essay examines contests between local practices and central institutions over the meaning and cultural practices linked to the nation, focusing in particular on commemorations of the war dead after 1918. The analysis shows that the ability of the state to control how nationalism was celebrated through commemorations of the Great War was by no means determined or even successfully mediated from the center. In fact, local voices in rural setti…
An American Feminist in Romania
Journal Article An American Feminist in Romania Get access MARIA BUCUR MARIA BUCUR Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society, Volume 1, Issue 2, Summer 1994, Pages 223–230, https://doi.org/10.1093/sp/1.2.223 Published: 01 July 1994
In Praise of Wellborn Mothers
I. Eastern Europe
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The Politics of Duplicity
The Politics of Duplicity: Controlling Reproduction In Ceaufeşcu's Romania. GAIL KLIGMAN. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988. xv. 358 pp., photographs, figures, tables, notes, appendix, bibliography, index
Historical Perspectives on Memory
Journal Article Historical Perspectives on Memory. Ed. by Anne Ollila. (Helsinki: Studia Historica, 1999. 222 pp. ISBN 951-710-116-3.) Get access Maria Bucur Maria Bucur Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 88, Issue 2, September 2001, Pages 615–616, https://doi.org/10.2307/2675113 Published: 01 September 2001
Treznea
This essay focuses on the relationship between official and vernacular forms of remembering a mass killing of eighty-six civilians that took place on 9 September 1940 at Treznea, a village in the heart of Northern Transylvania, now part of Romania. This region was at that point in the process of being reoccupied by Hungarian troops after the Vienna Award of 31 August 1940. After 1940, the memory of 9 September remained apparently buried yet power…
Resurrection in Post-Socialist Europe
Resurrection in Post-socialist Europe
A Biographical Dictionary of Women's Movements and Feminisms
150 expertly-researched biographical portraits (with pictures) of women and men who were active in, or part of, women's movements and feminisms in 22 countries in Central, Eastern and South Eastern Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries
Romania in Harm's Way, 1939-1941
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Blood and Homeland
The history of eugenics and racial nationalism in Central and Southeast Europe is a neglected topic of analysis in contemporary scholarship. The 20 essays in this volume, written by distinguished scholars of eugenics and fascism alongside a new generation of scholars, excavate the hitherto unknown eugenics movements in Central and Southeast Europe, including Austria and Germany. Eugenics and racial nationalism are topics that have constantly been…
An Archipelago of Stories
WHEN I THINK ABOUT THE YOUNG FIELD of gender history in Eastern Europe, the following metaphor comes to mind: gender historiography as an archipelago of individual efforts, often disconnected and emergent, erupting periodically like so many volcanic islands, connected with the institutional seats of power of academia by rafts rather than ocean liners or solid bridges. While in 1986 it was possible for Joan Scott to write about the need to reject …
Of Crosses, Winged Victories, and Eagles
This essay examines contests between local practices and central institutions over the meaning and cultural practices linked to the nation, focusing in particular on commemorations of the war dead after 1918. The analysis shows that the ability of the state to control how nationalism was celebrated through commemorations of the Great War was by no means determined or even successfully mediated from the center. In fact, local voices in rural setti…
Linkages between biodiversity attributes and ecosystem services
Marius Turda, Eugenics and Nation in Early 20th Century Hungary
Journal Article Marius Turda, Eugenics and Nation in Early 20th Century Hungary Get access Marius Turda, Eugenics and Nation in Early 20th Century Hungary, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. Pp. viii + 343. £70. ISBN 978 1 137 29352 7. Maria Bucur Maria Bucur Indiana University [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of Medicine, Volume 28, Issue 1, February 2015, Pages…
Eugenics
The “good birth” theory of improving humanity through selective reproduction developed in the late nineteenth century, first in Great Britain and France, and subsequently more broadly in Europe and throughout the world. This theory and the policies it advocated became especially popular during the 1930s, but came under severe criticism when the Nazis used them to justify inhumane methods such as sterilizing individuals with disabilities or the “f…
War and Regeneration
How were healthcare practices altered by massive violent deaths and the epidemics that decimated European societies between 1914 and 1918? How did states, professional healthcare personnel, and other caretakers choose to learn from this trauma? How have historians reflected on these complex shifts? The centenary of the Great War presents an opportunity to reconsider the legacies of this event that reshaped Europe from a variety of perspectives, a…
Women and state socialism
Imagine all history written as if all people, even women, mattered. Until a couple of decades ago, that was at most an aspiration for those of us working on East European history. Since then, however, and especially with the fall of Communism, feminist scholars have made significant inroads toward achieving this goal. This review essay reflects on the contributions made by five such studies that focus on different aspects of women's lives under s…
Gender Hurts. A Feminist Analysis of the Politics of Transgenderism, by Sheila Jeffreys
"Gender Hurts. A Feminist Analysis of the Politics of Transgenderism, by Sheila Jeffreys." Women's History Review, 26(4), pp. 655–656
Francesco Zavatti, Writing History in a Propaganda Institute
review of the book above
Rebellious Parents. Parental Movements in Central-Eastern Europe and Russia
Rebellious Parents. Parental Movements in Central-Eastern Europe and Russia." Europe-Asia Studies, 70(9), pp. 1536–1537
To Have and to Hold
This article focuses on the gendered aspects of the institutional framework surrounding the protection, control over, and transfer of property before 1914 in the area that became Romania in the twentieth century, from inheritance to marriage divorce, dowry, and widowhood. During the period covered here, these territories were part of several distinctive administrative regimes—the Habsburg Empire, Russia, and the Ottoman Empire—that also treated p…
Introduction
From Invisibility to Marginality
This essay enhances the broad context in which Karen Offen's argument is framed by addressing the question of how the humanities are faring today in relation to academic research and learning. I explore what that context means specifically for women's history and vice-versa into the future. Secondly, I provide a historical overview of how women's history in Romania has developed since 1989. My analysis highlights the slow and uneven shift from co…
Brexit
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