Solidarity's Secret The Women Who Defeated Communism in Poland

Name: Solidarity's Secret The Women Who Defeated Communism in Poland
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ISBN: 9780472031962

ISBN-10: 0472031961

ISBN-13: 9780472031962

Edition: 2006

Authors: Shana Penn

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"This important book explores one of the most pivotal periods in Polish history and deals with a topic nearly everyone else overlooked. Shana Penn's study begins with a simple question I wish I had thought more about myself: once the leadership of Solidarity had been arrested during the 1981 military coup, who kept the movement alive over the following months and years? The answer will surprise you, as Penn delves into the lives of seven Polish women activists who rose to the call, set about saving an entire political movement, and in time turned themselves into some of the most powerful women in Poland today." ---Lech Walesa, former President of Poland and winner of the 1983 Nobel Peace…

Book details

List price: $28.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Publication date: 12/11/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 5.75" wide x 9.25" long x 1.20" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English



Foreword


Acknowledgments


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


Appendix


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Index