Ambiguous transitions: gender, the state, and everyday life in socialist and postsocialist Romania: by Jill Massino, New York, Berghahn Books, 2019, 466 pp., $135/£99 (hardcover)/$39.95 (ebook), ISBN: 9781785335983 (hardcover); 9781785335990 (ebook). (2nd January 2020)