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Article: Feminism in Poland

This project is feasible and significant because the history of feminism in Poland is a subject with a lot of scholarship and not a huge, difficult to understand amount of content. This project is feasible because the parts of the article I want to edit are the sections under “Second Wave Feminism” which happened under communist and post-communist rule in Poland. They relate to socialist policies and ideas passed by the communist government of the time. The content gap is particularly evident in the section “Under Communist Rule” which ignores the role of women in the labor force during this time. Overall, the content I aim to fix some of the warnings of issues of neutrality, lack of citations, and a general lack of content about feminism in Poland in the second half of the 20th century. The scholarship that exists focuses on Polish resistance to Soviet rule and how the role of women both shaped and responded to changes in the system of government.

Sources:

Padraic Kenney. “The Gender of Resistance in Communist Poland.” The American Historical Review 104, no. 2 (1999): 399–425. https://doi.org/10.2307/2650371.

This source, although from 1999, has been cited a lot and is considered a classic. This analyzes the long term resistance to Soviet rule through the lens of gender. Because the state repressed many activist possibilities, new and unusual forms of resistance were brought to the movement by women.

Jarska, Natalia. “Female Breadwinners in State Socialism: The Value of Women’s Work for Wages in Post-Stalinist Poland.” Contemporary European History 28, no. 4 (2019): 469–83. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0960777319000201.

This source examines women’s wage work in the 1950s and 60s, focusing on female breadwinning and public opinions and gender assumptions shaping this time period. This source informs the contributions I want to make because it discusses the role of women and labor under communism. The current wikipedia article simply says that the time period is characterized by propaganda about female equality, but this scholarship argues that that may not be the case.

Grabowska, Magdalena. “Bringing the Second World In: Conservative Revolution(s), Socialist Legacies, and Transnational Silences in the Trajectories of Polish Feminism.” Signs 37, no. 2 (2012): 385–411. https://doi.org/10.1086/661728.

This article addresses the role of feminism and gender later in the time period, focusing on the fall of the Soviet Union. Grabowska looks at the impact of the Eastern European revolutions and their gendered component, emphasizing the role of women in social change. This article informs the contributions I want to make because currently the section about the fall of communism doesn’t include the role of women in the revolution and the transition.

Matynia, Elzbieta. “Provincializing Global Feminism: The Polish Case.” Social Research 70, no. 2 (2003): 499–530. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40971624.

This source examines globalization and feminism, especially during the fall of the USSR transitions, integration into the EU and increased freedom. This scholarship focuses on the surprising associations between globalization and feminism, and helps to further define feminism in the period after the fall of communism.

Graff, Agnieszka. “Lost between the Waves? The Paradoxes of Feminist Chronology and Activism in Contemporary Poland”. Journal of International Women's Studies, 4(2), 100-116. (2003) Available at: https://vc.bridgew.edu/jiws/vol4/iss2/9

This source might be the most useful and interesting one. It focuses on the paradoxes of Polish feminism and how it exists outside of traditional feminist waves. It also explains the current relationship between the church, post-communist policies and feminism. This article informs the contributions I want to make because it might help me restructure the whole Wikipedia article or maybe add context or a section about defining Polish feminism outside of restrictive categories.

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Luke, Learie. 2007. Identity and secession in the Caribbean: Tobago versus Trinidad, 1889–1980 Kingston, Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press.
- This is a book published by a university press, so it should be a reliable source. It also covers the topic in some depth, so it's helpful in establishing notability.
Galeano, Gloria; Bernal, Rodrigo (2013-11-08). "Sabinaria , a new genus of palms (Cryosophileae, Coryphoideae, Arecaceae) from the Colombia-Panama border". Phytotaxa.
- This is a peer-reviewed scientific journal, so it should be a reliable source. It covers the topic in some depth, so it's helpful in establishing notability.
Baker, William J.; Dransfield, John (2016). "Beyond Genera Palmarum: progress and prospects in palm systematics". Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society.
- This is a peer-reviewed scientific journal, so it should be a reliable source for a specific fact. Since it only dedicates a few sentences to the topic, it can't be used to establish notability.

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