We all fought for freedom : women in Poland's solidarity movement
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We all fought for freedom : women in Poland's solidarity movement
(Studies in the ethnographic imagination)
Westview Press, 1996
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  Iwate
  Miyagi
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  Yamagata
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  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
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  United Kingdom
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  France
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Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]-192)
Description and Table of Contents
Description
One of the few books devoted to the experience of Polish women in the Solidarity Movement, We All Fought for Freedom explores womens historical consciousness of this period through interviews, iconography, and commemorative practices of Solidarity. A significant addition to the burgeoning literature on political, social, cultural changes in Eastern Europe, this book focuses on the importance of ideologies of protest, antipolitics and gender, illuminating the contributions that anthropology is making to the study of East European social change. }One of the few books devoted to the experience of Polish women in the Solidarity movement, We All Fought for Freedom explores womens historical consciousness of this period through interviews, iconography, and commemorative practices of Solidarity.The women interviewed, many of whom were local activists in the Gda }
Table of Contents
- "The lives of Polish women are difficult" - making ends meet in the transition
- the strikes of 1980 - ontological moments of solidarity and selfhood
- "Man of Iron" and the creation of an "official" historical consciousness of Solidarity
- heroines of the quotidian - martial law, gender and memory
- time, space and historical consciousness
- iconography and imagery in Solidarity - an exploration of collectibles (Pamiatki)
- historical consciousness in protest - the health service 1991-1992
- images of motherhood in women's historical consciousness
- discourses of the public and private
- gendered narrative structures in historical consciousness
- memory, gender and activism in Solidarity - implications for Polish feminism.
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