Challenging Bucharest’s “Little Paris” Myth: A Conversation with Alexandra Ghiţ
Between 1914 and 1941, Bucharest’s population tripled,approaching one million inhabitants. This rapid growth created new neighborhoods and new opportunities but also brought new forms of poverty. While some historians portrayed the interwar Bucharest as ” the little Paris”, Alexandra Ghiţ’s book Welfare Work without Welfare: Womenand Austerity in interwar Bucharest provides a much more nuanced perspective about this city by focusing on the women’s role in welfare work.
As she states in our podcast: ”the city had a larger modern area with beautiful governmental buildings and bloc houses (...)…
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