In countries the world over, the patriotic man is the face of illiberal masculinity. Paula Iacobescu explores the illiberal male ideal in contemporary Romanian politics, through its figurehead, George Simion
MA Candidate in Gender, Minorities and Policy Studies, National School of Political and Administrative Studies, Bucharest
Paula is a researcher and writer examining the entanglements of nationalism, gender, and reproduction in post-socialist Eastern Europe.
Her work centres on reproductive and birth justice in contexts shaped by authoritarian nostalgia, populism, and biopolitics.
She holds a BA in International Relations and European Studies and is currently completing her MA thesis, Anatomies of Obedience: Obstetric Violence and Body Politics in Contemporary Romania.
Her previous research includes The Womb of the Nation, a study of nationalism and reproductive control in Romania and Poland, 1945–2024.
Alongside her academic work, Paula is increasingly drawn to questions of femininity, masculinity, and the affective labour of nationhood.
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