Keywords
regional press
emancipation of women
journalism
How to Cite
Abstract
The article discusses the status of female peasants in Galicia during World War I, an important issue that still awaits to be fully researched by scholars. Female peasants from Galicia did not happen to be the focus of academic examination of any kind, neither did they come under scrutiny by the press at the time. It was male peasants that created - deliberately or not - the image of life in rural areas. Journalists, if they paid any attention to women at all, would tend to perceive women as the most ‘unrecognized’ element of the rural life as well as the most persistent obstacle to civilizational and cultural innovations. The Great War changed the situation. Suddenly, the “muted” participants of social life were forced to take responsibility for what so far had been solely male domain - in other words, they gained social “visibility”. The article shows how female peasants voiced their opinions in the regional press of Galicia, particularly in Piast, in which the editorial board was more than willing to provide them with such opportunities.
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