ABSTRACT
For the Hungarian communities in Transylvania, the Banat, Crisana and Maramures, the transitional period following the Treaty of Trianon was clearly marked by a complex and multifaceted process of making and becoming a minority in Romania. Ethnic minorities, as happened in other parts of Europe, were seen as suspicious in the successor countries and were the lost-and-desired territories for their mother countries. The analysis of the way in which gender is differentiated and intertwined with the categories of ethnicity, race and class will be outlined by referring to the theories presented by Nira Yuval-Davis, who published extensively on the issue of intersections between gender, ethnicity and race, and considered how gender relations are crucial to the understanding and analysis of nations and nationalism. After the Treaty of Trianon, the Hungarians from Transylvania tried to institutionalise their political representation through the Hungarian Union (Magyar Szövetség), and then through the establishment of the Hungarian Party.
