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Article: Feminist Studies Award winner.(announcements)(Basia A. Nowak)(Brief Article)
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- Feminist Studies
- Article date:
- March 22, 2005
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Basia A. Nowak is the winner of the 2004 Feminist Studies Award for her article, "Constant Conversations: Agitators in the League of Women in Poland during the Stalinist Period." Her article provides a thoughtful historical analysis of how, during the Stalinist period (1949-1953), Poland's primary women's organization under communism, the League of Women, served the party's propaganda effort, particularly through the work of its female agitators. As the title suggests, female agitators used "talking" as a means of both informing women about socialist ideology and facilitating their participation in the building of a socialist state. The article explores why the party ...