Women, Communism, and Industrialization in Postwar Poland

Women, Communism, and Industrialization in Postwar Poland

Fidelis, Malgorzata (Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Illinois, Chicago)

Cambridge University Press

01/2014

296

Mole

Inglês

9781107617667

15 a 20 dias

Malgorzata Fidelis' study of female industrial workers in postwar Poland proves that women were central to the making of communist society.
Introduction; 1. Visions of equality: the state, the church, and women's sections; 2. Heroines and rebels: accommodation and resistance on the shop floor; 3. From village to factory: creating the new proletarians; 4. New women for new occupations: the case of coal mining; 5. Women astray: debating sexuality and reproduction during the thaw; 6. Reforming the system, protecting motherhood: contradictions of the post-stalinist experience; Epilogue: from communism to post-communism; Appendix I. List of archives and abbreviations; Appendix II. Personal interviews.