Polish Women, Solidarity and Feminism

ISBN-13: 9781349123414 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 246 str.

Anna Reading

Opis

Examines Polish women's oppression before, on the cusp and after the collapse of communism. The book analyzes the relationship between Solidarity, state capitalism, nationalism and feminism by drawing on a wide variety of source material.

Spis treści

Part 1 (Mis) Representations of Polish women: the West's other; subject woman/subject nation; table's corner; state capital's monument; the average woman; holes and hope; solidarity for whom?; outside conclusions. Part 2 Polish women representing themselves: re-introduction; women who weave; women who manage; women who prime; women who rule; end openings. Part 3 Re-translating Polish feminism: the unmothered past; post war compacts; writing the sky; don't sweep - fly; feminist I am.