LEAGUE OF POLISH WOMEN LEADERS AND ELECTIONS IN THE 1980s (IN “OUR WORK”) Cover Image

Liderki Ligi Kobiet Polskich wobec wyborów w latach 80. (w świetle „Naszej Pracy”)
LEAGUE OF POLISH WOMEN LEADERS AND ELECTIONS IN THE 1980s (IN “OUR WORK”)

Author(s): Agnieszka Drozdowska
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Social history
Published by: Wydawnictwo HUMANICA Instytut Studiów Kobiecych
Keywords: League of Polish Women; women’s organization; parliamentary elections; Nasza Praca [Our Work]

Summary/Abstract: The article presents the attitudes of leading members of Liga Kobiet Polskich [League of Polish Women] to the parliamentary elections, published in the Nasza Praca [Our Work] monthly in the last decade of the Polish People’s Republic. The source material for this article can be found in the election propaganda in 1980, 1985, and 1989. The leaders of the mass women’s organization attempted to get access to women by voting for women in the upcoming parliamentary elections. In the Nasza Praca monthly, they postulated gender equality, they showed the social situation of women and the advantages of a women’s joint action.

  • Issue Year: 2020
  • Issue No: 8
  • Page Range: 194-209
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Polish