Household as a Battleground of Modernity: Activities of the Home Economics Committee Affiliated to the League of Women (1957–80)
Household as a Battleground of Modernity: Activities of the Home Economics Committee Affiliated to the League of Women (1957–80)
Author(s): Katarzyna Stańczak-WiśliczSubject(s): Oral history, Political history, Gender history, Post-War period (1950 - 1989)
Published by: Instytut Historii im. Tadeusza Manteuffla Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: modernity;modernisation (upgrade); household;League of Women;Home Economics Committee
Summary/Abstract: This essay seeks to show the Polish household in the communist time as a space of modernity and modernisation activities. The chronological framework is set between 1957 – the date the Home Economics Committee affiliated to the League of Women was set up to contribute to, and be a mouthpiece of, the everyday life modernisation policy – and 1980, being the symbolic borderline between the modernity discourse and the Polish 1980–1 crisis discourse about household. In this context, the article reconstructs both the activities of social actors who created the ‘scenarios of modernity’ for the household and the reception of the messages in question in the village of Bogate in the District (powiat) of Przasnysz.
Journal: Acta Poloniae Historica
- Issue Year: 2017
- Issue No: 115
- Page Range: 123-150
- Page Count: 28
- Language: English