JA – CHŁOPKA, JA – MIASTOWA. DOŚWIADCZENIE MIGRACJI ZE WSI DO MIAST W PAMIĘTNIKARSKICH RELACJACH KOBIET W POLSKIEJ RZECZPOSPOLITEJ LUDOWEJ
FROM A PEASANT TO A CITY WOMAN. RURAL-URBAN MIGRATION IN FEMALE DIARISTIC NARRATIONS IN PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF POLAND

Summary/Abstract: This article aims to describe the processes of identity changes of rural-urban women migrants in the 1950sand 60’s Poland. Based on an analysis of diaries, two ways of creating one’s identity in the context of socialimages of the rural and the urban, as well as social constructs of femininity in urban and rural settings willbe described. Two models of migration process will be presented based on two diaristic narrations, analyzedwith tools associated with the biographical method. Diaries will be examined in the context of contemporarymodernization discourse, in opposition to conventional binary images of the rural (“backward”, traditional) andthe urban (modern, active), as well as femininity models associated with rural and urban spaces. The articleaims to present the female experience of migration and ways of adapting to a new lifestyle.

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