Etla i Enta
Etla and Enta

Remarks on Friendship, Politics and Herstory

Author(s): Piotr Laskowski
Subject(s): Gender Studies, Sociology
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: herstory; people’s history; domestic servants
Summary/Abstract: The paper attempts to identify a specific type of social bonds, based on mutual care, concern and support, that emerged between women from subordinate groups involved in communist activity in the Second Polish Republic, namely: Jewish domestic workers (servants). The only traces of such ties can be recognized in documents (CVs, opinions, a handful memoirs) made for the party apparatus. The research perspective developed by feminist historiography and the school of microhistory helps to show how awkward phrasing, while “loosening” the standardized stiff form of such documents, reveals the otherwise unexpressed forms of women’s social contacts.

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