1st Edition
Women in Poland, 1945–1989 Modernity, Equality, Communism
Introduction to the English-Language Edition
Stańczak-Wiślicz et al.
Chapter 1. The Road to Power? Women in Politics
Piotr Perkowski
Chapter 2. Equal Rights or Conservative Modernity? Women and Work
Ma.gorzata Fidelis
Chapter 3. The Modern Housewife: Woman in the Household
Piotr Perkowski and Katarzyna Stańczak-Wiślicz
Chapter 4. “It’s Not Easy Being a Girl”: Upbringing, Coming-of-Age, and Education
Katarzyna Stańczak-Wiślicz
Chapter 5. Women and the Family
Barbara Klich-Kluczewska
Chapter 6. Objects of Biopolitics? Health, Reproduction, and Violence
Barbara Klich-Kluczewska and Piotr Perkowski
Chapter 7. Beautiful and Resourceful: Beauty Culture and the Body
Ma.gorzata Fidelis and Katarzyna Stańczak-Wiślicz
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Katarzyna Stańczak-Wiślicz (Institute of Literary Research, PAS) is a cultural historian interested in women’s history in post-1945 Poland.
Piotr Perkowski (University of Gdańsk) is a social historian, specializing in Poland’s social and economic history after 1945.
Małgorzata Fidelis (University of Illinois Chicago) is a social and cultural historian, focused on everyday life and the individual-state relationship in post-1945 Eastern Europe.
Barbara Klich-Kluczewska (Jagiellonian University, Kraków) is a cultural historian, focused on gender history, history of sexuality, family and childhood.
