Sytuacja społeczna kobiet na Dalekim Wschodzie utrwalona w czasopismach i wspomnieniach Polaków na przełomie XIX i XX wieku
Social Situation of Women in the Far East Recorded in Magazines and Memories of Poles at the Turn of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century

Summary/Abstract: The fight against injustice affecting women has been going on in the Far East for hundreds of years, however their position improved only in the first decades of the twentieth century. The stimulus for the emancipation of local women came from numerous translations of European literature dating back to the late nineteenth century. The main demand put forward by the masses of Chinese and Japanese women was aimed at giving them the right to vote, which turned out to be possible only at the end of the 1940s. Nevertheless, women in the Far East did not give up their efforts, obtaining a number of significant rights, regarding property, inheritance, as well as education and labor. Poles were curious to watch the struggle for gender equality in China and Japan, which was largely reflected in articles published both in Poland and abroad.

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