Zerwana genealogia. Sprawczość działaczek społęcznych i politycznych w socjalistycznej Polsce i Gruzji a współczesne ruchy kobiece

• Authors: Grabowska Magdalena

Title variants

EN

Broken genealogy. The agency of women's activists in socialist Poland and Georgia, and contemporary women's movements

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The objective of this article is to challenge and destabilise existing approaches to state socialism as a historical period during which women remained passive observers of social and political realities. Beginning with the afterthought about the possibility of utilising some of the concepts and categories of feminist methodologies within the post-socialist context, I present results of the research conducted, between 2010-2014, with women active in communist parties and women’s organisations before 1989, in Poland and in Georgia. Drawing from in-depth interviews and archival documents, including the United Polish Workers Party and Women International Democratic Federation archives, I then examine three aspects of the experience of women active socially and politically under state socialism. First, I present diverse motives behind the decision to become a party member. Second, I explore the amount of autonomy that, in their own words, women active in the communist party and women’s organisations had at their disposal. And third, I look at the ways in which socialist activists can be positioned within existing narratives on feminism and women’s movements in post-socialism.

Keywords

EN

post-socialism; women's movement; eaminist methodology

• Publisher: Polskie Towarzystwo Ludoznawcze
• Journal: Lud
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 99
• Pages: 185-207

Dates

published

2015

Contributors

author

Grabowska Magdalena

• Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences

Identifiers

ISSN

0076-1435