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With no natural boundaries, except for the Carpathian mountains to the south, Poland has continually struggled for identity and recognition as an independent nation state.
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Information on Polish history from: W. F. Reddaway, J. H. Penson, O. Haledin, R. Dybolski, THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF POLAND, volume one — up to 1679, (Cambridge University Press, 1950).
W. F. Reddaway, J. H. Penson, O. Haledin, R. Dybolski, THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF POLAND, volume two — Augustus II to Pilsudski, 1697–1935 (Cambridge University Press, 1951). Quote cited ibid, 1951, p. 74.
Speech by David Lloyd George, 1919, cited in N. Davies, GOD’S PLAYGROUND: A HISTORY OF POLAND (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1981) p. 393.
Magdelena Sokolowska, ‘Women’s Experience Under Socialism’ in J. Zollinger-Giele and A. Chapman-Smock (eds), WOMEN’S ROLES AND STATUS IN EIGHT COUNTRIES (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1977) p. 350.
Renata Siemieńska, ‘Women and Social Movements in Poland’, WOMEN AND POLITICS, vol. 6, no. 4 (Winter, 1986) p. 90.
Magdelena Sokolowska, ‘Women in decision making elites: The case of Poland’, in Cynthia F. Epstein and Rose L. Coser (eds), ACCESS TO POWER. CROSS NATIONAL STUDIES IN WOMEN AND ELITES (London: Allen & Unwin, 1981) p. 107.
T. Grzebienjowski, LANGENSHEIDT POLISH/ENGLISH DICTIONARY, (Kent: Hodder & Stoughton, 1988).
Olga A. Narkiewicz, THE GREEN FLAG. POLISH POPULIST POLL TICS 1867–1970 (London: Croom Helm, 1976) p. 56.
‘Naprzod’ (11.6.1896), cited in Joseph Buszko, RUCH SOCJALISTYCZNY W KRAKOWIE. 1890–1914 (Kracow: Wydawnictwo Literackie, 1961) p. 110.
Cecylia Walewska, KOBIETY W POLSCE (Warszawa: Gebathner I Wolf, 1909) III, p. 40, cited in Siemieńska, 1986, ibid.
Ukrainian feminist cited by Martha Bohachevsky-Chomiak, ‘Ukrainian feminism in inter-war Poland’, in Sharon L. Wolchik, and Alfred G. Meyer (eds), WOMEN, STATE AND PARTY IN EASTERN EUROPE (Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 1985) p. 90.
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Reading, A. (1992). Subject Nation/Subject Woman. 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_3
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