Abstract

The study is grounded on an extended research project, concerning the trends in recovery and transmission of cultural memory of women within rural Romania, reinvention of the peasant identities being discussed both in terms of socialist and post-communist transformations. First part of the research, concentrated in present article, discuss the structural and cultural heritage of „women questions” during Romanian transition, while the second part of the study will focus on dynamics of property rights and role of landownership in shaping the living memory and status of rural women. The methodological design of the study frames a hybrid approach, reuniting a historical reconstruction perspectives with comparative exercises aiming to highlight the past and present use of social spaces in generating cultural contracts and gendered memory orders.