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Holes and Hope

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Polish Women, Solidarity and Feminism

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Much work has been done on stereotypical representations of women in Western literature from Kate Millet’s Sexual Politics (1968) to Lesley Ferris’ Acting Women: Images of Women in the Theatre (1990). In this chapter I examine some of the stereotypes of women in Polish literature and the effects of nationalism and state censorship on writer-women.

‘A woman who writes commits two crimes she increases the number of writers — and decreases the number of women.’

Julian Tuwim

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Reading, A. (1992). Holes and Hope. 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_7

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