Edwarda Orłowska. Politician, Activist, a Feminist?
Edwarda Orłowska. Politician, Activist, a Feminist

Summary/Abstract: The article reviews the political biography of Esfir Mirer, later Edwarda Orłowska,one of the key figures of the post war women’s movement in Poland and outside. The author looks into Orłowska’s publications and personal documents to investigate how intersecting dimensions of difference, such as gender, nationality, and class shaped her path to communism, and towards becoming a leader of Women’s Department of Polish Workers’ Party and Polish United Workers’ Party after 1945. In the broader context the author argues that given Orłowska’s role in shaping intersectional communist project of women’s emancipation in Poland, and her active engagement in the work of Women’s International Democratic Federation, globally, she can be considered a part of generation of the foremothers of the modern feminist movement.

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