This article analyzes the representation of Albanian women in Western media under the communist regime of Enver Hoxha (1945-1991). Drawing on the accounts of Western journalists, writ¬ers, and filmmakers who visited Albania between the 1960s and the 1980s, it shows that Albanian women were portrayed both as vic¬tims of a patriarchal past and as symbols of socialist emancipation. However, Western sources do not always fully reflect the reality of women’s condition in communist Albania, as some offer partial, idealized, or ideologically influenced perspectives.
