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Solidarity is sexist in its policies, its structure and its ideology and fails to represent women’s needs. Yet despite this, as I shall show, working women have their own modes of participation and representation in Solidarity as a union and a party.
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B. W. Jancar, ‘Women in the Opposition in Poland and Czechoslovakia in the 1970’s’ in Wolchik and Meyer, 1985, op. cit., pp. 175–76.
Witchcraft is older than Christianity and was consistently opposed by the Church. Between the twelfth and seventeenth centuries approximately nine million people, mostly women, were tortured and killed as witches, with the approval of the Catholic and later Protestant Churches. M. A. Warren, THE NATURE OF WOMAN: AN ENCYCLOPEDIA AND GUIDE TO THE LITERATURE (Inverness, California: Edgepress, 1980) pp. 489–90.
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Reading, A. (1992). Don’t Sweep — Fly. 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_19
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