Table of Contents
Introduction John J. Bukowczyk v
Part 1 The Polish Female Ideal and Real
Oscar Halecki's Vision of Saint Jadwiga of Anjou: The Polish Review 44, no. 4 (1999) Thaddeus V. Gromada 3
Jadwiga of Anjou as the Image of a Good Queen in Late Medieval and Early Modern Poland: The Polish Review 44, no. 4 (1999) Anna Brzezinska 9
Women and Political Patronage in the Politics of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth: The Polish Review 44, no. 3 (1999) Lynn Lubamersky 21
Power in Powerlessness: The Strange Journey and Career of Regina Salomea Pilsztynowa: The Polish Review 53, no. 1 (2008) Wladyslaw Roczniak 38
Part 2 Bridging Polish and Polish Diasporic Lives
"Not as a Gift of Charity": Ernestine Potowska Rose and the Married Woman's Property Laws: Polish American Studies 58, no. 2 (Autumn 2001) James S. Pula 65
The Role of Women in the Polish Migration to the Rhein-Westphalia Industrial Region at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century: The Polish Review 42, no. 3 (1997) Jan Molenda Robert E. Blobaum 103
Women, Work & Family: Polish, Italian and Eastern European Immigrants in Industrial Connecticut. 1890-1940: Polish American Studies 45, no. 2 (Autumn 1988) Laura Anker 124
Purity and Power: Chicago Polonian Feminists, 1880-1914: Polish American Studies 47, no. 1 (Spring 1990) William J. Galush 150
An Act of Devotion; The Polish Grey Samaritans and the American Relief Effort in Poland, 1919-1921: Polish American Studies 43, no. 1 (Spring 1986) Robert Szymczak 169
Wayward Wives and Delinquent Daughters: Polonia's Second-Generation Flappers in the Novels of Melania Nesterowicz: Polish American Studies 53, no. 1 (Spring 1996) Karen Majewski 189
Scouting for Identity: Recruiting Daughters to Save the Traditional Polish Family During the Interwar Years: Polish American Studies 71, no. 1 (Spring 2014) Lori A. Matten 201
"The New Sportswoman"; Nationalism, Feminism and Women's Physical Culture in Interwar Poland: The Polish Review 48, no. 4 (2003) Nameeta Mathur 234
Part 3 Image, Identities, and Consciousness; Gender, Class, and Ethnicity Entwined
Holy Mary, Other of God: Sacred and Profane Constructions of Polish-American Womanhood: The Polish Review 48, no. 2 (2003) John J. Bukowczyk 257
It Knew Me for Its Own: Helen Bristol's Journey of Self Discovery: Polish American Studies 52, no. 1 (Spring 1995) Rita Gladsky 266
"The Silent One": The (Absent) Voiceless Mother in Recent Narratives by Leslie Pietrzyk and Ellen Slezak: Polish American Studies 66, no. 1 (Spring 2009) Grazyna J. Kozaczka 274
Exile in Postwar Polish Women's Prose: The Polish Review 59, no. 1 (2014) Bozena Karwowska 286
"Am I That Name?" Feminism, Feminist Criticism, and Gender Studies: The Polish Review 59, no. 1 (2014) Halina Filipowicz 305
For Further Reading 319
