Jednostka nowoczesna, człowiek kulturalny. O drukowanym poradnictwie dla młodzieży w latach 70.
The Modern Individual, the Cultured Person: Life Manuals for Young Readers in the 1970s

Summary/Abstract: The Polish publishing market of the 1970s produced a wealth of advice books on topics such as hygiene, manners, interpersonal relationship, sex and family life as well as timemanagement (from day-to-day planning to general life planning). Hygiene manuals, for instance, were used to train children in primary and secondary schools to live in socialist families. Examining the context of life manual writing as a genre, Zawadzka focuses on three aspects – modernisation, urbanisation and class advancement. She also asks what brand of socialism was being promoted in the 1970s, when this type of writing encouraged specific practices and attitudes.

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