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Walka o prawa wyborcze kobiet w Polsce
The fight for women electoral rights in Poland

Author(s): Małgorzata Niewiadomska-Cudak
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Gender Studies, Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Constitutional Law, Sociology
Published by: Społeczna Akademia Nauk
Keywords: Polish woman; electoral right; feminist movement; break

Summary/Abstract: This article treats about way of polish woman for obtainment of electoral right. It was not so easy and with recovery by Poland of independence runaway. Women must have broken patriarchal, feudal model of interpersonal attitude relation which appointed functions of mothers and wives. Tradition talks and it talks beyond parenthesis moral norm political woman. Feminist movement traffic was born in Poland under annexation in pains near the end XIX century age. In spite of the fact that they have not got Polish feminists as English such prominence, contribution was undeniable to battle about access to spheres of public reserved lives for men only. Everything ended with giving woman full rights in Polish Republic. On the 28 of November 1918 year electoral court act for legislative Parlament decree, effective concede and passive electoral right were given to all citizens, independently of sex. For the first time in the independent Poland, on the 26 of January 1919, women could choose and be chosen.

  • Issue Year: 3/2013
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 55-64
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Polish