Antropologiczny wgląd w narracje o kobiecym doświadczeniu wojny i powojnia na podkarpackich wsiach
Anthropological Insight into Narratives of Women’s War and Postwar Experience in Rural Subcarpathia

Author(s): Iga Kondraciuk
Subject(s): Anthropology, Customs / Folklore, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Post-War period (1950 - 1989)
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: memory; women’s history; herstory; oral history; World War II; postwar period; Supcarpathia
Summary/Abstract: The article aims to present a picture of women’s experiences from the time of World War II and the postwar period in rural Subcarpathia. The work illustrates the diversity of these experiences. On the one hand, it describes some representative phenomena, on the other hand, it strongly emphasizes individual voices. The focus is primarily on the lives of women from poor peasant families. The text gives the floor to the voices of individuals, and outlines fragments of the image of social conditions of the war and postwar times directly related to women’s lives. The themes covered are violence, fear, family life, farm work, sexuality, health and hygiene, analyzed on the basis of ethnographic research conducted in the districts of Jarosław and Przeworsk in 2019–2020, and the source of the presented knowledge is the memory of my interlocutors.

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