Solidarity's secret : the women who defeated Communism in Poland / Shana Penn
- Author
- Penn, Shana
- Published
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2005]
- Copyright Date
- ©2005
- Physical Description
- xvii, 372 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Contents
- Introduction: national secret -- Women at the gates: Anna Walentynowicz and the August 1980 strikes -- Solidarity's "blank spot": the legal period and martial law -- Dark circles: building the Solidarity underground -- Floating offices: publishing the underground newspaper -- Wild card: the female stereotype as camouflage -- A third space: mutual dependencies and cooperation -- Patient revolution: women and leadership -- "Our romantic model": myth, literature, and women's place -- In the end, the beginning: adjustments and new problems for women after 1989 -- Filling in the "blank spot": the public discourse on women.
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 0472113852 (cloth : alk. paper)
- Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-358) and index.
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