A Patriarchal Marriage? The Women’s Movement and the Communist Party in Poland (1945–1989)
A Patriarchal Marriage? The Women’s Movement and the Communist Party in Poland (1945–1989)
Author(s): Natalia JarskaSubject(s): History, Political history, Social history, Gender history, Recent History (1900 till today), WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Post-War period (1950 - 1989)
Published by: Instytut Historii im. Tadeusza Manteuffla Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: the women’s movement; state socialism; Poland; the League of Women; the communist party
Summary/Abstract: This article is a contribution to the debate on the role and character of women’s organizations in Eastern Europe after 1945, including the role they played in the process of women’s emancipation. The purpose of the article is to offer insight into the relation between the communist party (that is the PPR and its successor – the PZPR) and the women’s movement in Poland in the years 1945–89 and to provide a new interpretation of the movement’s history under state socialism. I contend that women’s organizations should be viewed as part of the communist system and the roles they played should be understood in the context of the policies pursued by the communist states.
Journal: Kwartalnik Historyczny
- Issue Year: 125/2018
- Issue No: 02 (en)
- Page Range: 7-37
- Page Count: 31
- Language: English