Levchuk, I. (2018). Promouterky zmin: diialnist zhinochykh orhanizatsii u Polshchi mizhvoiennoho periodu [Women promoters of change: The activities of women’s organizations in interwar Poland] (M. M. Hon, Ed.). Volynski Oberehy.
Annotation: This book is devoted to the issue of women’s emancipation, which the author examines through episodes drawn from the history of interwar Poland. Its protagonists are women whose ideas and actions contributed to shaping a new image of woman and overcoming entrenched gender stereotypes.
Taking into account the particularities of the society of the time — above all the role played by the church in individual self-identification — the author presents women’s history in its national articulations. She traces the emergence and activities of Polish, Ukrainian, and Jewish women’s organizations.
The focus on these three groups reflects the fact that they were the most populous nationalities of the Second Polish Republic. The activities of the three nations’ women’s organizations are presented not as parallel trajectories but as ones that constantly intersect — for the author’s central concern is to compare their priorities and to identify what was shared and what was distinctive in the work of Ukrainian, Polish, and Jewish women’s organizations.
Intended for historians, specialists in gender studies, and all those interested in questions of women’s history.
The book was published by the NGO Center for Social Production and Research “Mnemonika” within the framework of the project “Palimpsests of Memory,” with the support of Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung in Ukraine.