Polityka na łamach „Pracy Obywatelskiej” (1928–1939), organu prasowego sanacyjnego Związku Pracy Obywatelskiej Kobiet

Abstract

„Praca Obywatelska” [„Citizenship Work”] was an internal paper of the Związek Pracy Obywatelskiej Kobiet, formed by the left -liberal intelligentsia in March 1928 after Jozef Piłsudski’s May Coup of 1926. It aimed to involved women in political movement. ZPOK soon became the largest and most infl uential prosanacja women’s association in interwar Poland. Its founding members stressed that women needed their own political representation in the Pilsudski’s camp. Th ey envisioned the ZPOK as a school of democracy, preparing women for self-reliant political and social activities, helping them to overcome their inhibitions regarding public life and to transform into fully engaged female citizens of the state. Th e newspaper openly supported politics of the sanacja camp and its BBWR (Nonpartisan Bloc for Cooperation with the Government).