Maria Bucur: 3 books

Book cover of The Century of Women

The Century of Women

How Women Have Transformed the World since 1900

by Maria Bucur
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2018

This innovative text explores the unprecedented changes in the realms of politics, demography, economics, culture, knowledge, and kinship that women have brought about in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Global in reach, the book provides a comparative analysis of developments worldwide to...
Book cover of Gendering Modernism

Gendering Modernism

A Historical Reappraisal of the Canon

by Professor Maria Bucur
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017

Gendering Modernism offers a critical reappraisal of the modernist movement, asking how gender norms of the time shaped the rebellion of the self-avowed modernists and examining the impact of radical gender reformers on modernism. Focusing primarily on the connections between North American...
Book cover of Birth of Democratic Citizenship

Birth of Democratic Citizenship

Women and Power in Modern Romania

by Maria Bucur, Mihaela Miroiu
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018

What is it like to be a woman living through the transition from communism to democracy? What effect does this have on a woman’s daily life, on her concept of herself, her family, and her community? Birth of Democratic Citizenship presents the stories of women in Romania as they describe their experiences...
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