CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2015
| Author | Butean, Silvia Bianca |
|---|---|
| Title | Reflected bodies: women's perspective on marital experience and corporeal transformation within motherhood in Floresti, Romania |
| Summary | Even if the concept of marriage and motherhood is subject to continuous changes and reinterpretations, women and men still marry and have children in a more traditional or alternative manner. Starting with this assumption, my major interest in this thesis is to unveil particularities from women’s narratives regarding their perception over their own bodies and identities, by focusing my analysis on lived experiences, intimate scenes, daily practices and activities within marriage and motherhood. Thus, my research is constituted by a qualitative empirical work conducted in post-socialist neighborhood Floreşti, Romania known as a place mostly inhabited by middle-class families. The structure of this thesis is centered on the analysis of interviewed women’s middle-classness along with their class affinities and dispositions, their perception on marital experience on identity and corporeal transformation, and their reflections on maternity as a transformative stage in terms of subjectivity, agency and body. |
| Supervisor | Eva Fodor |
| Department | Gender Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2015/butean_silvia.pdf |
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