Family Concepts: Gender, Politics, and Personal Relationships in the Romanian Legionary Movement

Anca Diana Axinia

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Chapter 5 Family Concepts: Gender, Politics, and Personal Relationships in the Romanian Legionary Movement

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Pages:: 113–135

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004703766_007

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The Legionary Movement, known also as ‘Legion of the Archangel Michael’ and ‘Iron Guard’, was founded by Corneliu Zelea Codreanu (1899–1938) in 1927 and became a crucial actor in the Romanian inter-war political arena. Renowned and studied as one of the major far-right, fascistic, and anti-Semitic parties of the inter-war era, the gendered dimensions of the Movement’s membership and ideology have only recently become the object of deeper inquiry. This chapter analyses the Movement’s discourses on gender through the lens of personal relationships. Particular focus lies on the legionary concept of ‘family’, in which gendered dimensions and political underpinnings were intertwined. The legionary ideology pursued not only a ‘politicisation’ of family networks, but aimed to transform and redefine the idea of family itself. Different models of families coexisted within the Movement, ranging from more ‘traditional’ nuclear families based on marriage to extended groups in which spiritual and political relations transcended and enriched biological forms of kinship. A composite array of ‘family portraits’ emerges from the analysis of legionary press, ideological writings, photographs, and other sources. The choice of family as the object of analysis may thus offer a deeper understanding of the constitutive role of gender in fascist discourses and practices.

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Gendering Fascism

Individual Actors, Concepts, and Transnational Connections

Series: Brill's Specials in Modern History, Volume: 9

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004703766

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 21 Feb 2025

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