Papers by Katarzyna Stańczak-Wiślicz
Kultura i Społeczeństwo, 2005
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This paper seeks to explore how the martial law and the politics of the ‚new order’ were pictured... more This paper seeks to explore how the martial law and the politics of the ‚new order’ were pictured in Polish popular women’s magazines at the beginning of the 1980s. After martial law was imposed on 13 December 1981, all but two press titles were suspended. Most of them were reinstated in the first half of 1982, but their editors were obliged to observe the so-called „socialist values” and to represent the policy of the ruling party. Therefore, in the women’s press, officially interested in the problems of family, everyday life and culture, texts justifying the decision to impose martial law and explaining the new political line began to appear. They represented a variety of journalistic genres, from journalism to correspondence with readers. A particularly interesting example are (to a large extent) signed letters to the editorial office. The metaphors of family breakdown, marital infidelity and, on the other hand, internal peace, order and coping served to describe the political re...
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Acta Poloniae Historica
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Rocznik Antropologii Historii, 2014
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Pożegnanie z Matką Polką? Dyskursy, praktyki i reprezentacje macierzyństwa we współczesnej Polsce, 2012
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Th is paper seeks to explore how the martial law and the politics of the ‚new order’ were picture... more Th is paper seeks to explore how the martial law and the politics of the ‚new order’ were pictured in Polish popular women’s magazines at the beginning of the 1980s. Aft er martial law was imposed on 13 December 1981, all but two press titles were suspended. Most of them were reinstated in the fi rst half of 1982, but their editors were obliged to observe the so-called „socialist values” and to represent the policy of the ruling party. Th erefore, in the women’s press, offi cially interested in the problems of family, everyday life and culture, texts justifying the decision to impose martial law and explaining the new political line began to appear. Th ey represented a variety of journalistic genres, from journalism to correspondence with readers. A particularly interesting example are (to a large extent) signed letters to the editorial offi ce. Th e metaphors of family breakdown, marital infi delity and, on the other hand, internal peace, order and coping served to describe the pol...
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The paper analyses the changes of food behaviours in post-1945 Poland in the context of socialist... more The paper analyses the changes of food behaviours in post-1945 Poland in the context of socialist modernization. It is focused on both discourses and everyday practices. After 1945 Poland was a nearly mono-ethnic rural society which experienced fast modernization, industrialization and urbanization. The communist authorities who promised social justice and universal prosperity faced a problem of painful food shortages. This resulted from the aftermaths of war, and later was a by-product of the socialist economy. Thus, dietary education became an important strategy in the effort to feed the new socialist Poland. Special institutions and agendas were established to modernize eating habits according to the “rational”, “scientific” bases of the communist project of modernization. Up until the late 1970s, expert dietary advice promoted pre-prepared food, canned and frozen products, vegetables and meat consumption. Food columns in women’s magazines, advice books and adverts presented the ...
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The paper analyses the changes of food behaviours in post-1945 Poland in the context of socialist... more The paper analyses the changes of food behaviours in post-1945 Poland in the context of socialist modernization. It is focused on both discourses and everyday practices. After 1945 Poland was a nearly mono-ethnic rural society which experienced fast modernization, industrialization and urbanization. The communist authorities who promised social justice and universal prosperity faced a problem of painful food shortages. This resulted from the aftermaths of war, and later was a by-product of the socialist economy. Thus, dietary education became an important strategy in the effort to feed the new socialist Poland. Special institutions and agendas were established to modernize eating habits according to the “rational”, “scientific” bases of the communist project of modernization. Up until the late 1970s, expert dietary advice promoted pre-prepared food, canned and frozen products, vegetables and meat consumption. Food columns in women’s magazines, advice books and adverts presented the ...
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Gender, Generations, and Communism in Central and Eastern Europe and Beyond, 2020
The chapter is part of a larger project concerning various contexts of the production of knowledg... more The chapter is part of a larger project concerning various contexts of the production of knowledge on the so-called women’s issues in post-1945 Poland. The authors analyze development of sociology of gender from the late 1950s until the early 1970s., when topics such as women’s paid work and time budget, changing patterns of family life, power relations within family and in the workplace gained popularity. Moreover, there was a significant presence of women scholars in these research areas. The chapter analyzes careers of four Polish female sociologists, identifying them as not only academics but also discourse producers. The authors argue that “generational” perspective may contribute to the analysis of the discussed phenomena. Common biographical experience like the professional trajectory from social activism (journalism, medical professions) to academic research, as well as socio-political context, with its focus on modernity, progress, and emancipation, may be seen as crucial factors for the rise and development of the intellectual identity of Polish women scholars in the second half of the twentieth century
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Kontradikce, 2020
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The Polish Review, 2020
This article seeks to show how the economic, political, and social crisis of the 1980s in Poland ... more This article seeks to show how the economic, political, and social crisis of the 1980s in Poland was experienced, understood, survived, and managed in the micro-scale of individual households. Keeping in mind the inner dynamic of the period, I focus on the first years of the economic collapse (1980–1982), when supply shortages were extremely painful. The text contributes to the current interest in every-day life practices under communism. It intends to take a closer look at the adaptive strategies undertaken by individuals, precisely by women. It is based on the critical analysis of the first-person women’s narratives: memoirs, personal diaries and letters to the editor published in popular women’s magazines
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Forum Socjologiczne, 2017
Reading what was born out of disorder — a few examples of autobiographical narratives from the pe... more Reading what was born out of disorder — a few examples of autobiographical narratives from the period of the HolocaustThe paper is based on the textual analysis of a few chosen autobiographical narratives from the period of the Holocaust in occupied Poland. They were written by teenage girls and young women, mostly in Polish. “Reading what was born out of disorder” — category formulated by the French historian, Arlette Farge, has been applied as a basis for the analysis. According to Farge’s concept, the paper deals with the analysis of the authors attempts to document the disintegration of a well-known world of every-day experiences and their own suffering related to a lack of order in the world around them.
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Niebezpieczne związki. Macierzyństwo, ojcostwo i polityka, 2015
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Książka śledzi losy kobiet w Polsce lat 1945-1989 na szerokim tle komunizmu i historii powojennej... more Książka śledzi losy kobiet w Polsce lat 1945-1989 na szerokim tle komunizmu i historii powojennej Europy. Oparta o obszerną i najnowszą światową literaturę przedmiotu oraz kwerendy różnorodnych źródeł historycznych, zainteresuje czytelniczki i czytelników pragnących zapoznać się z historią kobiet w komunizmie i historią Polski, szeroko rozumianymi studiami nad problematyką genderową, historią feminizmu i historią społeczną. Przybliża najważniejsze badania i ukazuje znaczenia historii gender/kobiet dla Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej. Porusza zagadnienia aktywności kobiet w polityce, doświadczeń kobiet pracujących w mieście i na wsi, gospodarstwa domowego, ról kobiet w rodzinie, dorastania i awansu edukacyjnego, biopolityki oraz kultury urody. Zostały one zaprezentowane w kontekście tytułowych pojęć nowoczesności i równouprawnienia, aby ukazać komunistyczne projekty kierowane do kobiet na tle doświadczeń drugiej połowy XX wieku w innych krajach
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