... jazz culture and race (Wipplinger 2017), social engineering and eugenics (Turda 2013), and the specific story of Beiersdorf (Reckendrees 2018). It highlighted the ethnic and racial dimensions of fashion and beauty to deepen understanding of Romanian gendered realities.

... gender, fashion and violence (Moyse Ferreira 2022), fashion, consumption and modernity (Weinbaum et al. 2008), gender and national identity (Carver and Mottier 1998), gender in Central and Eastern Europe (Livezeanu and Farris 2007), ...

It employed semiotics of visual and written published texts and personal archaeology. This paper built upon the existing literature on fashion and politics (Bartlett 2019), gender and war (Bucur and Winfield 2006), fashion, austerity and war (Taylor and McLoughlin 2020), ...

... referenced colour in its name, and Snow White, the first Disney princess, linked to Nivea’s promise of glowing white skin. The methodology was based on fashion studies with outreach to cultural studies (gender, media) and history (culture, art).

... a decade defined by autocracies, extreme-right-wing violence, racism, militarism, and rejection of democracy. It contrasted two symbols of femininity known to interwar Romanian women: Chat Noir, a popular perfume that embodied Parisian elegance and subtly ...

My paper, “From Chat Noir to Snow White: Ethnicity, Race and Women in Romanian Fashion and Beauty Discourse, 1933–1944”. It explored the dynamics of fashion and beauty discourse for and about Romanian women between 1933 and 1944, ...

I presented alongside Alex Chiriac and Ștefania Cotei. If you are registered for the online portion of the Convention, you can still find our panel, “Reclaiming Race Narratives in Romania: Archives, Memory and Reckoning,” and listen to or watch it, along with all the other virtual panels!

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