Gen şi naţiune: rolul femeilor în procesul de construire a identităţii naţionale la românii din Transilvania (a doua jumătate a secolului al XIX-lea şi începutul secolului XX)

The present paper deasl with the national identity analised from a gender perspective. It studies the context and manners in which the nation-building process influenced the emergence of gender identity at Romanian women from Transylvania during the second half of the XIXth century and the beginning of the XXth century. The historical records were questioned considering two main research questions. First, how did Romanian intelelectuals, men, understood and at the same time shaped the role women had to have in the national project? And the second one, how was women’s own perception about their gender influenced by the dominant view constructed by men?