Aims and forms of polish feminists activity in „Ster” and „Nowe Słowo” during the 1st World War

Abstract

T social situation of polish women before the 1st World War was not radically different from the situation of women in other countries1. Similarly as in the most European countries polish women had no rights for voting and limited accessibility to education on medium and higher level. Moreover, Victorian Age put severe moral obligations for women, and at the same time allowed men for much more freedom in this area of life. Hence polish feminists demanded „Rights for women, morality for men”. However the political situation was different since Poland was divided into three parts under foreign occupation. The problem of the rebirth of independent country in some way influenced the activity of polish feminists. Still they underlined that the fight for women’s rights should not be postponed to the moment of the creation of independent Poland. The specific character of polish emancipation was described in 1902 by Maria Turzyma in the paper „Good and bad will”: