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The book answers fundamental questions about the processes of social negotiation of mentality shifts in communist Poland. Taking divorce, single motherhood, domestic violence and abortion as examples, it analyzes the level of acceptance toward tabus grounded in tradition, and the course of negotiating new meanings and using social exclusion when dealing with new phenomena. The author uses not only national documents, but also ego-documents and cultural texts to prove the macrosocietal dictatorship in the years 1956-1989 contributed not to the revolutionization of society at the family level, but to its perpetuation. The family references made by the communist authorities, especially in the last two decades of their regime, can be treated as one of the factors legitimizing the system.



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history of family – Poland – communism – tabu – divorce – domestic violence – single mothers – abortion – cultural history – experts‘ knowledge – gender history

Family, Taboo and Communism in Poland, 1956-1989

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    A Hardback by Jan Burzyński, Soren Gauger, Barbara Klich-Kluczewska

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      Publisher: Peter Lang AG
      Publication Date: 26/02/2021
      ISBN13: 9783631838075, 978-3631838075
      ISBN10: 3631838077

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      The book answers fundamental questions about the processes of social negotiation of mentality shifts in communist Poland. Taking divorce, single motherhood, domestic violence and abortion as examples, it analyzes the level of acceptance toward tabus grounded in tradition, and the course of negotiating new meanings and using social exclusion when dealing with new phenomena. The author uses not only national documents, but also ego-documents and cultural texts to prove the macrosocietal dictatorship in the years 1956-1989 contributed not to the revolutionization of society at the family level, but to its perpetuation. The family references made by the communist authorities, especially in the last two decades of their regime, can be treated as one of the factors legitimizing the system.



      Table of Contents

      history of family – Poland – communism – tabu – divorce – domestic violence – single mothers – abortion – cultural history – experts‘ knowledge – gender history

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