Stefania Mihailescu, Din istoria feminismului romanesc. Antologie de texte (1838-1929) (From the history of Romanian feminism. Collection of documents [1838-1929]), Iasi: Polirom, 2002, 376 pp., 18.90 RON (pb). ISBN 973-681-012-7

Stefania Mihailescu, Emanciparea femeii romane. Antologie de texte. Vol. I (1815-1928) (Romanian women's emancipation. Collection of documents. Vol. I [1815-1928]), Bucuresti: Editura Ecumenica, 2001, 605 pp., (pb). ISBN 973-99782-1-5

Maria Bucur, Mihaela Miroiu eds., Patriarhat si emancipare in istoria gindirii politice romanesti (Patriarchy and emancipation in the history of Romanian political thought), Iasi: Polirom, 2002, 270 pp., (pb). ISBN 973-681-130-1

Mihaela Miroiu, Drumul catre autonomie. Teorii politice feministe (The road to autonomy. Feminist political theories), Iasi: Polirom, 2004, 307 pp. 17.90 RON (pb). ISBN 973-681646-X

Ghizela Cosma, Femeile si politica in Romania. Evolufia dreptului de vot in perioada interbelica (Women and politics in Romania. The evolution of the right to vote in the interwar period), Cluj-Napoca: Presa Universitara Clujeana, 2002, 174 pp. (pb). ISBN 973-610-069-3

Ghizela Cosma, Virgiliu Jarau eds., Condilia femeii in Romania in secolul XX. Studii de caz (Woman's condition in Romania in the twentieth century. Case studies), ClujNapoca: Presa Universitara Clujeana, 2002, 213 pp. (pb). ISBN 973-610-127-4

Alin Ciupala, Femeia in societatea romaneasca a secolului al XIX-lea (Woman in Romanian Society of the nineteenth century), Bucuresti: Editura Meridiane, 2003, 174 pp. (pb). ISBN 973-33-0481-6

Simona Stiger, 'Miscarea feminista romaneasca din Transilvania (1850-1914)' (The Romanian feminist movement in Transylvania [1850-1914]), in Prezenfe feminine. Studii despre femei in Romania (Feminine presences. Studies about women in Romania), eds., Ghizela Cosma, Eniko Magyari-Vincze and Oviciu Pecican, Cluj-Napoca: Editura Fundatiei Desire, 2002, 237-266, 488 pp. (pb.). ISBN 973-85512-4-2

In the last few years, new and important scholarship in women's history has emerged in line with the growing interest in gender studies stirred by the emergence and institutionalisation of a Romanian feminism in academia. (1) Women historians have become increasingly interested in recovering the history of women's condition and feminism in Romania. Probably the most influential work in this context is that of the historian Stefania Mihailescu. After many years of research, she gathered an impressive number of documents on 'the woman question' and the feminist movement in Romania, which were published in two collections: the first, covering the period 1815-1918, in 2001, and the second, a revised edition of the first and covering the period 1838-1929, in 2002. In the introduction to these two editions, largely identical, Mihailescu outlines the main characteristics of women's economic, legal, and political status for the period covered by documents. She also offers her interpretations of the origins of feminist activism in Romania and the ideological nature of Romanian feminisms. (2)

Mihailescu's work stimulated the interest of other Romanian feminists in recovering the historical traditions of feminism in Romania. Mihaela Miroiu, a well-known Romanian feminist philosopher and the initiator of the first Romanian graduate program for gender studies in Bucharest, has played an important role here. Miroiu has encouraged a group of young Romanian political scientists to approach the various strands of political thought developed in Romania...