Contested Identities: National Independence and Women's Suffrage in Poland

Recorded November 29, 2018. This public lecture will be presented
by Dr Aneta Stępień, Centre for European Studies, Trinity College
Dublin. This talk will address the complex social and political
situation in which women’s organizations operated in Poland under
partition and the intimate relationship that developed between the
fight for national independence and the political independence of
women. Although presented as equal in the struggle for
independence, Polish suffragettes faced criticism and resistance
from different groups of men: politicians, workers and the
military. The talk will focus on the role of the nationalist and
militant/militarist suffragettes in obtaining voting rights for
women in 1918 and key figure Aleksandra Piłsudska. Drawing from her
Memoirs, published in 1940 in London, the talk will consider the
potential problems in commemorating the achievements of the women’s
suffrage movement in Poland. Learn more at:
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