Object structure
Title:

Household as a battleground of modernity: activities of the Home Economics Committee affiliated to the League of Women (1957–80)

Subtitle:

Acta Poloniae Historica T. 115 (2017)

Creator:

Stańczak-Wiślicz, Katarzyna

Contributor:

Korecki, Tristan : Trans. ; Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences ; Polish National Historical Committee

Publisher:

Instytut Historii PAN

Place of publishing:

Warszawa

Date issued/created:

2017

Description:

p. 123-150 ; 23 cm

Type of object:

Journal/Article

Subject and Keywords:

modernity ; modernisation (upgrade) ; household ; League of Women ; Liga Kobiet (Poland) ; Home Economics Committee

Abstract:

This essay seeks to show the Polish household in the communist time as a space of modernity and modernisation activities. The chronological framework is set between 1957 - the date the Home Economics Committee affiliated to the League of Women was set up to contribute to, and be a mouthpiece of, the everyday life modernisation policy - and 1980, being the symbolic borderline between the modernity discourse and the Polish 1980-1 crisis discourse about household. In this context, the article reconstructs both the activities of social actors who created the ‘scenarios of modernity’ for the household and the reception of the messages in question in the village of Bogate in the District (powiat) of Przasnysz.

References:

Fehérváry Krisztina, ‘Goods and States: The Political Logic of State-Socialist Material Culture’, Comparative Studies in Society and History, li, 2 (2009), 426-59.
Jarosz Dariusz, Mieszkanie się należy ... Studium z peerelowskich praktyk społecznych (Warszawa, 2010).
Jarska Natalia, Kobiety z marmuru. Robotnice w Polsce w latach 1945-1969 (Warszawa, 2015).
Morgan David, ‘Gendering the Household: Some Theoretical Considerations’, in Linda McKie, Sophie Bowlby, and Susan Gregory (eds.), Gender, Power and the Household (London, 1999), 22-40.
Nowak Barbara A., Serving Women and the State: the League of Women in Communist Poland, Ph.D. diss., Ohio State University, 2004
Oldenziel Ruth and Zachmann Karin (eds.), Cold War Kitchen. Americanization, Technology, and European Users (London, 2009).

Relation:

Acta Poloniae Historica

Volume:

115

Start page:

123

End page:

149

Resource type:

Text

Detailed Resource Type:

Article : original article

Format:

application/pdf

Resource Identifier:

0001-6829 ; 10.12775/APH.2017.115.05

Source:

IH PAN, sygn. A.295/115 Podr. ; IH PAN, sygn. A.296/115 ; click here to follow the link

Language:

eng

Rights:

Creative Commons Attribution BY-ND 4.0 license

Terms of use:

Copyright-protected material. [CC BY-ND 4.0] May be used within the scope specified in Creative Commons Attribution BY-ND 4.0 license, full text available at: ; -

Digitizing institution:

Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Original in:

Library of the Institute of History PAS

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