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Polish women lack, according to the reading of Part I from outside the static border or granica. They lack an identity or meaning of their own. They are vessels, appendages of PUWP, of Solidarity, of the Church, of Nationalism, of the economic system, of men. Polish women as such are present but not really present at all. They are excluded from the possibilities of representation except as mirrors of the West, of the state and of men.
It is true to say that the dominant power group at any given time will dominate the intertextual production of meaning, this is not to suggest opposition has been reduced to total silence. The struggle intersects the sign.
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Reading, A. (1992). Re-Introduction. In: Polish Women, Solidarity and Feminism. Women’s Studies at York/Macmillan Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-12339-1_10
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