rights to feminist politics The developing struggle for women's liberation in
These are times of great promise and great danger for women in Poland. For decades, the second class status of women - in public life, on the labour market, and at home - was an unchallengeable fact of life, firmly rooted in the hypocritical policies of the Communist bureaucracy and in the ideology of the powerful Catholic Church. Now the collapse of one-party rule and the nascent democratic process have created political space for women to begin struggling to change their situation.
A newly formed national feminist organisation is taking the lead in advocating women's rights and challenging the institutions of male dominance that circumscribe every SOCIALIST OUTLOOK no 26, July-Auqust 1990
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