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Title: Speech Held by Mrs. Alexandrina Cantacuzino at the GFR Congress at Cluj on January 21, 1933. Description: Alexandrina Cantacuzino’s speech at a Romanian Women’s Association Congress at Cluj on January 21, 1933 in which corporatist ideas started to be used in supporting women’s higher participation in the public life. Canatcuzino’s orientation towards the doctrine of corporatism came in line with her constant preoccupation with the... Title: Speech Held by Mrs. Alexandrina Cantacuzino at the GFR Congress at Cluj on January 21, 1933. Description: Alexandrina Cantacuzino’s speech at a Romanian Women’s Association Congress at Cluj on January 21, 1933 in which corporatist ideas started to be used in supporting women’s higher participation in the public life. Canatcuzino’s orientation towards the doctrine of corporatism came in line with her constant preoccupation with the idea of attainment of social solidarity through the spiritual reformation and education of individuals in the spirit of sacrifice and communitarian values. In Cantacuzino’s particular reading of the corporatist ideology, the corporatist organization of the state had the advantage of offering the intelligentsia more possibilities to become involved in the political decision-making through a higher representation in the Senate. The corporate state could also give educated strata (of women) the opportunity to become more involved with better and more efficiently organized social and educational activities for the masses. This was considered important not only for the advance of women’s rights but also for the achievement of a better society. Keywords: Alexandrina Cantacuzino, political rights, politics, Romanian Women’s Association, corporatism, reform Show more Show less

Title: The Speech of Mrs. Alexandrina Gr. Cantacuzino at the General Meeting of the National Council of Romanian Women, Bucharest, December 13, 1936. Description: Speech of Alexandrina Cantacuzino, leader of the National Council of Romanian Women, at the 1936 general meeting of the organization. At that time, the aim of the suffragist campaign was to obtain full political rights for women, after the achievement of local political rights for cert... Title: The Speech of Mrs. Alexandrina Gr. Cantacuzino at the General Meeting of the National Council of Romanian Women, Bucharest, December 13, 1936. Description: Speech of Alexandrina Cantacuzino, leader of the National Council of Romanian Women, at the 1936 general meeting of the organization. At that time, the aim of the suffragist campaign was to obtain full political rights for women, after the achievement of local political rights for certain categories of women in 1929. But in this speech, Cantacuzino declared that she was informed “by an important politician” that women had no chances to obtain full political rights. They could be offered only the right to vote for the Parliament. The speech offers also details, among others, about Cantacuzino’s participation to the 1936 Dubrovnik Congress of the International Council of Women (ICW) and mentions her trip, as a member of ICW’s executive board, to Calcutta where she attended the Indian National Council of Women’s conference of the same year. Keywords: National Council of Romanian Women, Alexandrina Cantacuzino, suffrage, politics, internationalism, women’s rights, ICW Show more Show less

Title: Association foundation 7 dec 1930. Description: Speech given by Alexandrina Cantacuzino at the Romanian Women’s Association’s meeting from December 7, 1930, in which she argues for women’s political suffrage and a reform of the entire political system on corporatist basis. Keywords: Alexandrina Cantacuzino, gender difference, politics, women’s suffrage, political reform, corporatism, Romanian Women’s Association

Title: The First Meeting of the Circle for Feminine Studies. 28th of November 1924. Description: Manuscripts of a speech held by Elena Meissner, leader of the Association for the Civil and Political Emancipation of Romanian Women (AECPFR), in 1924, at the first meeting of a “circle for feminine studies” established in Iassy in the same year. As seen from the title of the circle, in that period the term “feminism” (previously used to denom... Title: The First Meeting of the Circle for Feminine Studies. 28th of November 1924. Description: Manuscripts of a speech held by Elena Meissner, leader of the Association for the Civil and Political Emancipation of Romanian Women (AECPFR), in 1924, at the first meeting of a “circle for feminine studies” established in Iassy in the same year. As seen from the title of the circle, in that period the term “feminism” (previously used to denominate similar circles) is consciously avoided by the members of the organization, in an effort to appeal to a wider audience and attract people who were reluctant or less knowledgeable of the aims of feminism in Romania and abroad. At this first meeting of the circle, Elena Meissner invited the (potential) participants to discuss problems and issues “in which all women are interested, issues related to all mothers and children and also issues regarding the interests of nations and humanity, of interest for all people regardless of sex”. In her invitation Meissner also emphasized the openness of AECPFR to endeavors in which all categories of women and people who were reluctant to get involved in the feminist movement would be interested. She stressed the educational virtues of the “circle for feminine studies” and at the same time on its inclusiveness in terms of problematic which, she thought, would counter the negative connotations attached to feminism. Keywords: Feminism, women’s emancipation, women’s movement, militancy, Association for the Civil and Political Emancipation of Romanian Women Show more Show less