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Desmantling patriarchy: political practices and Spanish feminist movement slogans in the democratic transition
2010
espanolEl movimiento feminista en Espana adquirio su mayor desarrollo en los anos setenta con el inicio de la transicion democratica. El proceso transicional representaba una oportunidad para la reivindicacion de los derechos de las mujeres y poner las nuevas bases sobre el lugar que debian ocupar en la futura sociedad democratica, asi como para denunciar la represion que la dictadura impuso al colectivo femenino. Las campanas y practicas politicas desarrolladas por el movimiento feminista en Espana fueron acompanadas de simbolos y lemas que formaban parte de la produccion simbolica del movimiento feminista como movimiento social. Estas representaciones simbolicas ayudaron configurar una id…
’Civilising’ the Transitional Generation: The Politics of Civic Education in Post-Communist Romania
2019
Abstract The paper examines the introduction of civic education in post-communist Romania as an educational means of civilising in a democratic ethos the children of the transition. Particularly close analytical attention is paid to a) the political context that shaped the decision to introduce civic education, b) the radical changes in both content and end purpose of civics brought about by educational policies adopted for accelerating the country’s efforts of integrating into the Euro-Atlantic structures (NATO and the European Union), and c) the actual consequences that these educational policies betting on civics have had on the civic values expressed by Romanian teenagers. The analysis …