Czy rzeczywiście „piekło matek”? O macierzyństwie w dramatach Marii Pawlikowskiej-Jasnorzewskiej

• Authors: Warońska Joanna

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Is It Really a “Mothers’ Hell”? On Motherhood in the Dramas of Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska

• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

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The author draws attention to the complexity of motherhood as one of the themes depictedin the dramatic works of Wojciech Kossak’s older daughter. Considered a moderate feminist in theinterwar period, Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska is aware of the fact that having children has becomea public matter. It is in the interest of the family, the species and society in general. For this reason,legal regulations are likely to create oppressive situations in which women’s interests and rightsare dismissed. In Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska’s plays, the topic of motherhood appears in a varietyof circumstances, and the news about pregnancy often transforms into a touchstone situation, sparkinga debate on the rights and obligations of an individual towards the human species and theirfamily. Abortion is one of the possible solutions. Yet, while criticising the system of norms andimperatives evolved around the instinct of having children, the playwright focuses on the positiveimages of motherhood. Good mothers are happy, while bad mothers are condemned. Therefore,while granting the heroines of her plays the right to love and personal fulfilment, Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewskaremains a traditionalist when it comes to obligations towards a conceived child.

Keywords

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mothehood; Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska; interwar drama; feminism; abortion in the interwar period

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Warmińsko-Mazurski w Olsztynie
• Journal: Prace Literaturoznawcze
• Year: 2020
• Issue: 8
• Pages: 127-143

Contributors

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Warońska Joanna

Identifiers

DOI

DOI: 10.31648/pl.4570