Herstoria. Autorki i bohaterki tekstów kultury
Herstory. Women as Authors and Heroines of Culture
Contributor(s): Joanna Getka (Editor), Iwona Krycka-Michnowska (Editor)
Subject(s): History, Cultural history, Sociology, Political history, Social history
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: women; social activists; culture; Central and Eastern Europe; literature
Summary/Abstract: The monograph presents various aspects of the situation and activities of women in Central and Eastern Europe, both in the past and at present, featuring profiles of outstanding women and topical or forgotten histories of social movements and organizations. In so doing, it engages in a dialogue with the culturally-defined stereotypical roles of women, which often cause their “Hamletian” tear between the social expectations and their own systems of values.
- E-ISBN-13: 978-83-235-5842-2
- Print-ISBN-13: 978-83-235-5834-7
- Page Count: 238
- Publication Year: 2022
- Language: Polish, Ukrainian
Jak wychować dziewczynkę, czyli o baśniowych wzorcach kobiecości
Jak wychować dziewczynkę, czyli o baśniowych wzorcach kobiecości
(How to raise a girl or about fairy-tale patterns of femininity)
- Author(s):Grażyna Mańkowska
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Cultural history
- Page Range:17-27
- No. of Pages:11
- Keywords:fairy tale; film adaptation; upbringing; gender image; femininity
- Summary/Abstract:The article is devoted to fairy tales and issues related to upbringing, and in particular to the influence of fairy tales on the upbringing of girls. In her considerations, the author focuses on film adaptations of fairy tales (live-action and animated) and the gender patterns presented in them, i.e. images of women with whom the girls watching the films can identify. Included are both films evoking traditional images of gender and contemporary adaptations that promote new stereotype-breaking images of women.
Odkrywanie polskich herstorii we współczesnej literaturze dla dzieci i młodzieży
Odkrywanie polskich herstorii we współczesnej literaturze dla dzieci i młodzieży
(Discovering Polish herstories in contemporary literature for children and young adults)
- Author(s):Sabina Waleria Świtała
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Cultural history
- Page Range:29-46
- No. of Pages:18
- Keywords:herstory; children’s and young adult literature; Polish women; biography; feminism
- Summary/Abstract:The concept of herstory has grown out of a critique of traditional historical writing to mean discovering the forgotten history of women. In recent years, books aimed at young audiences which implement this concept have appeared on the Polish publishing market. The article presents the portrayals of Polish heroines in children’s literature, offering a discussion of issues related to narrative strategies, the structure of texts and the relationship between facts and fiction contained in them.
Інструкцыі і павучанні Ганны з Сангушкаў Радзівіл да свайго сына, Гераніма Фларыяна Радзівіла, падчас яго выезда за межы Вялікага Княства Літоўскага
Інструкцыі і павучанні Ганны з Сангушкаў Радзівіл да свайго сына, Гераніма Фларыяна Радзівіла, падчас яго выезда за межы Вялікага Княства Літоўскага
(Anna Sanguszko Radziwiłłowa’s instructions to her son, Hieronim Florian Radziwiłł, during his travels outside the borders of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania)
- Author(s):Alina Kaltachenka
- Language:Ukrainian
- Subject(s):Cultural history
- Page Range:49-61
- No. of Pages:13
- Keywords:Radziwiłł; Grand Duchy of Lithuania; 18th century; travel; educational instructions
- Summary/Abstract:In the 16th–18th centuries, magnates gave instructions to their children when sending them on a long journey. Advice was usually given orally, but a certain number of written instructions has survived. Among their authors was Anna Sangushka Radziwiłł (Anna Sanguszko Radziwiłłowa), who wrote instructions for her son Geranim Florian Radziwiłł (Hieronim Florian Radziwiłł) and his guardians on the occasion of his 1730–1735 journey outside the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.
Людмила Высоцкая: польские истоки сибирской печатной книги
Людмила Высоцкая: польские истоки сибирской печатной книги
(Lyudmila Vysotskaya: the Polish origins of the Siberian printed book)
- Author(s):Natalia P. Dworcowa
- Language:Ukrainian
- Subject(s):Cultural history
- Page Range:63-77
- No. of Pages:15
- Keywords:Lyudmila Vysotskaya; Konstantin Vysotsky; Vasily Knyazev; Poles in Siberia; Siberian book
- Summary/Abstract:The article is about Lyudmila Vysotskaya (Ludmiła Wysocka), the first female publisher in Tyumen, who inherited her father’s printing house and ran it for 23 years. Vysotskaya is considered in the context of (1) the history of four generations of the Vysotsky (Wysocki) family, a Polish family in Siberia, which became for them a place of exile and a native land and to whose transformation they contributed by printing books; (2) the specifics of female entrepreneurship in Siberia; and (3) the literary and artistic version of the Vysotskys’ Polish-Siberian history in V.V. Knyazev’s novel "Dedy" (“Grandfathers”). Thanks to the Vysotsky family, Siberian books exist not only as high art and business but also as a synonym for freedom and a way to preserve cultural memory.
Maria Cecylia Krasińska – wizytka warszawska
Maria Cecylia Krasińska – wizytka warszawska
(Maria Cecylia Krasińska – Warsaw Visitation Sister)
- Author(s):Wojciech Jerzy Górczyk
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Cultural history
- Page Range:79-110
- No. of Pages:32
- Keywords:women translators; literature; nuns; Baroque
- Summary/Abstract:Cecylia Krasińska (ca. 1643–1693) entered the Order of the Visitation Sisters in 1663, taking the name Maria Cecylia. At the Warsaw convent, she got involved in the translating and publishing activity of the nuns, translating her order’s Coutumier from French. This work, with a preface written by Krasińska, was published in 1682. Thus, Maria Cecylia became one of the first Polish women translators and one of the first three Polish women – another one being her fellow sister Katarzyna Krystyna Branicka – whose work was published. Later, both these nuns – as Superior Sisters in Kraków – initiated the publishing activity of that convent.
Роль жінок у розвитку промислу та мистецтва 1920–1930-х рр.: кооператив «Українське Народне Мистецтво» у Львові
Роль жінок у розвитку промислу та мистецтва 1920–1930-х рр.: кооператив «Українське Народне Мистецтво» у Львові
(The role of women in the development of arts and crafts in the 1920s–1930s: the “Ukrainian Folk Art” cooperative in Lviv)
- Author(s):Olena Kozakewycz
- Language:Ukrainian
- Subject(s):Cultural history
- Page Range:111-132
- No. of Pages:22
- Keywords:Ukrainian industry; “Ukrainian Folk Art” cooperative; women; folk art; crafts; tradition
- Summary/Abstract:The cooperative “Ukrainskie Narodne Mystectvo” (“Ukrainian Folk Art”) was founded in 1922 in Lviv by prominent women from various fields of public life, culture and the arts. Its purpose was the development and promotion of folk art and crafts in Galicia and abroad. During the company’s activity (1922–1939), a number of exhibitions were organized; the "Nowa Khata" ("The New Home") magazine was published, featuring local and foreign news (about outstanding women of the world and Soviet Ukraine, about fashion, literature, theater, Ukrainian art, culinary recipes and others); domestic and “contemporary” industry production workshops were organized with the use of folk motifs at a high artistic level; handicraft courses were conducted, and folk and other patterns were published. The cooperative involved women in culture and art, encouraged individual development and promoted works of Ukrainian folk art and crafts. The activity of UNM is one of the examples of successful activity of women in the 1920s and 1930s. and at the beginning of the 21st century inspires Ukrainian women to take an active part in the development of arts and crafts.
„Matki zmian” i „bojowniczki światła”
„Matki zmian” i „bojowniczki światła”
(“Mothers of changes” and “warriors of light”)
- Author(s):Joanna Getka
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Cultural history
- Page Range:133-151
- No. of Pages:19
- Keywords:women; Belarus; protests; 2020; presidential election
- Summary/Abstract:The aim of the article is to analyse the image of women in the Belarusian counterculture in 2020. The active participation of women in the protests following the presidential elections in Belarus led observers of the events to conclude that they had a female dimension. It also entailed an artistic response of the “street” to the image of the Belarusian woman as a politically passive housewife created by official propaganda. The new image of Belarusian women emphasizes their consolidating role in building a community of resistance, which is created through civic solidarity and mutual support in the pursuit of common goals. Women have become a cultural formation aware of their roles – both traditional and new.
Bohaterki prozy życia w powieści "Czas kobiet" Jeleny Czyżowej
Bohaterki prozy życia w powieści "Czas kobiet" Jeleny Czyżowej
(Heroines of the prose of life in the novel "The Time of Women" by Elena Chizhova)
- Author(s):Anna Stępniak
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Cultural history
- Page Range:155-165
- No. of Pages:11
- Keywords:woman; heroine; state; Sovietism; collective
- Summary/Abstract:The article presents reflections on Elena Chizhova’s novel "The Time of Women", which won the Booker Prize in 2009. The author focuses on the manifestations of female solidarity in an unusual family of five unrelated women who live in a shared communal flat. The background of the novel is their heroic struggle against the soulless machinery of Soviet rule and absurd regulations in order to survive and maintain family unity and relative quality of life under conditions of widespread poverty after World War II.
Portret George Sand w dramacie Jarosława Iwaszkiewicza "Lato w Nohant"
Portret George Sand w dramacie Jarosława Iwaszkiewicza "Lato w Nohant"
(The portrayal of George Sand in Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz’s drama "Summer in Nohant")
- Author(s):Katarzyna Gędas
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Cultural history
- Page Range:167-176
- No. of Pages:10
- Keywords:George Sand; Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz; Summer in Nohant; Maria Przybyłko-Potocka; Edmund Wierciński
- Summary/Abstract:The article presents the figure of George Sand as portrayed in Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz’s drama "Summer in Nohant" and in the staging of the work directed by Edmund Wierciński. Sand became entangled in three life roles: mother, writer and Chopin’s former lover. Her complicated relationship with the composer led to her neglecting her children and her own work. This caused severe mental tension as well as moral dilemmas leading to frustration. Sand’s portrayal in the drama is multidimensional and ambiguous.
Bohaterki „straconego pokolenia” (na materiale współczesnej prozy rosyjskiej)
Bohaterki „straconego pokolenia” (na materiale współczesnej prozy rosyjskiej)
(Female protagonists of the “lost generation” (based on contemporary Russian prose))
- Author(s):Martyna Z. Kowalska
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Cultural history
- Page Range:177-191
- No. of Pages:15
- Keywords:generation of the 2000s; millennials; lost generation; Irina Bogatyreva; Olga Breininger; Kristina Gepting; Anna Nemzer
- Summary/Abstract:The article discusses the situation of female protagonists depicted in the prose of contemporary Russian women authors (Olga Breininger, Kristina Gepting, Anna Nemzer and Irina Bogatyreva). It analyses the category of the new “lost generation” (“generation of the 2000s”) from the perspective of literary studies as well as the sociological aspects that influence the concept of loss with regard to the millennial generation.
«Три-же…» від Євгенії Кононенко, або життя, житло, жінка в збірці новел "Празька химера"
«Три-же…» від Євгенії Кононенко, або життя, житло, жінка в збірці новел "Празька химера"
(Yevheniia Kononenko’s “three zhs”, or zhittya (life), zhytlo (housing) and zhinka (woman) in the collection of short stories "Prague Chimera")
- Author(s):Olena Yurchuk, Oksana Chaplinska
- Language:Ukrainian
- Subject(s):Cultural history
- Page Range:193-205
- No. of Pages:13
- Keywords:female prose; gender roles; traumatic experience; immanent otherness; self-irony
- Summary/Abstract:The study focuses on the collection of Yevheniia Kononenko’s novels "Prague Chimera". They are united by the same concept outlined in the preface. Critics rightly point to the closeness of the preface to Virginia Woolf’s essay "A Room of One’s Own". Although Kononenko’s texts are not about female writers per se, the idea of housing for a woman or a generation of women is their primary theme. The collection is full of irony and self-irony, sharp juxtapositions, mysticism and immersion in human psychology, with the chimeras serving as symbols of the hidden psychological fears and traumas of the protagonists.
Fenomen Heleny Bławatskiej
Fenomen Heleny Bławatskiej
(The phenomenon of Helena Blavatsky)
- Author(s):Agnieszka Szczap
- Language:Polish
- Subject(s):Cultural history
- Page Range:209-217
- No. of Pages:9
- Keywords:Helena Blavatsky; theosophy; occultism; fraud; travels
- Summary/Abstract:Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, also known as Madame Blavatsky, was born in Russia. Her life was full of unusual journeys and mysterious events, and she was already considered a controversial person during her lifetime, evoking various extreme emotions. She was a writer and co-founder of the Theosophical Society whose doctrine was based on the search for truth in all religions. Moreover, the Society was to be a universal community, bringing together all people regardless of gender, colour or social class. Blavatsky described her basic views on this subject in her book "Isis Unveiled".
Українська традиційна вишивка
Українська традиційна вишивка
(Traditional Ukrainian embroidery)
- Author(s):Tetiana Kutsyr
- Language:Ukrainian
- Subject(s):Cultural history
- Page Range:219-237
- No. of Pages:19
- Keywords:Ukraine; embroidery; tradition; female authors; research
- Summary/Abstract:The article is devoted to female researchers who started studying Ukrainian traditional embroidery as an independent phenomenon. They also played an important role in the formation of embroidery as a Ukrainian national symbol. The paper notes the contribution of each of them and identifies the main directions of research, initiated in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and then continued and developed by modern female authors.
