Phantom Borders and Nostalgia: German Women’s Associations in the Second Polish Republic after 1918

Autor(en)

Paula Lange

Abstrakt

Transformations associated with the end of World War I had an immense impact on the population of the former Prussian partition area, most of which became, in the wake of the war, the Second Polish Republic. Members of the German women’s associations, which had existed before 1918, found themselves in a new situation. As members of a national minority in the newly established Polish state, they were confronted with a reversed balance of power. Meanwhile, women’s suffrage had been introduced, opening up new political spaces of action for women. This article examines gender-related spaces of action for German women in this region after 1918 and explores the strategies and points of reference used by these women. The two examples on which it focuses, the Vaterländischer Frauenverein in Graudenz/Grudziądz and the work of feminist activist Martha Schnee in Bromberg/Bydgoszcz, are examined using the concepts of phantom borders and nostalgia.

Organisation(en)

Institut für Geschichte

Journal

The Hungarian Historical Review

Band

14

Seiten

373-401

ISSN

2063-8647

Publikationsdatum

2025

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

601008 Geschichtswissenschaft

Schlagwörter

Link zum Portal

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/18894994-4ceb-4462-8d05-4acb7249c1cf