Recorded November 29, 2018.

This public lecture will be presented by Dr Aneta Stępień, Centre for European Studies, Trinity College Dublin.

This talk will address the complex social and political situation in which women’s organizations operated in Poland under partition and the intimate relationship that developed between the fight for national independence and the political independence of women. Although presented as equal in the struggle for independence, Polish suffragettes faced criticism and resistance from different groups of men: politicians, workers and the military. The talk will focus on the role of the nationalist and militant/militarist suffragettes in obtaining voting rights for women in 1918 and key figure Aleksandra Piłsudska. Drawing from her Memoirs, published in 1940 in London, the talk will consider the potential problems in commemorating the achievements of the women’s suffrage movement in Poland.

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