Hegemonic childhood in the Polish community of West Prussia in the second half of the 19th and early 20th centuries
Hegemonic childhood in the Polish community of West Prussia in the second half of the 19th and early 20th centuries

Summary/Abstract: In this article, I present the hegemonic concept of childhood in the second half of the 19th and early20th centuries among the Polish community of West Prussia. The subject of the analyses was thecontent of articles dealing with children’s issues, published in the local Polish press. The essentialfeature of the hegemonic discourse of childhood for the Polish community in the analysed regionwas that it was clearly based on the Catholic religion and national ideas, as well as on a strong relationshipwith the conservative and post-feudal image of family relations. The conducted researchmade possible the identification of seven basic categories of the hegemonic understanding of childhoodin the Polish environment of West Prussia, which are: Polish and Catholic childhood, childhoodsensitive to the needs of others, heroic childhood, tidy and pupil childhood, neat and orderlychildhood, childhood based on obedience and subordination, sexual purity childhood.

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