Modernization and Emancipation: Masculine Women in the Communist World (Bulgarian Case 1944-1956)

Abstract

This paper is an attempt to show the culturally constructed boundary between women and men and how socialism blurs these boundaries. Women are officially recognized as equal citizens, including creators of the socialist state par with men. How it is possible this combination of male-female traits? How women think and feel about themselves during this period? These are just some of the questions that I try to give an answer.

Keywords

• boundaries
• fashion
• gender