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- Publisher
- Brill
- Copyright
- © 2009 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
- ISSN
- 0094-3037
- eISSN
- 1876-3308
- DOI
- 10.1163/187633009X411647
- Publisher site
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Abstract
164 Reviews / East Central Europe 36 (2009) 158–166 Golczyńska-Grondas, Agnieszka. Mężczyźni z enklaw biedy: rekonstrukcja pełnionych ról społecznych [Men from the enclaves of poverty: Th e social roles they play]. Łódź: Przedsiębiorstwo Specjalistyczne Absolwent, 2004. 216 pp. ISBN 83 88384 79 1. Works that have the potential of becoming ‘great leaps forward’ in a given discipline may often seem provocative. Th is both is and is not the case with Agnieszka Golczyńska-Grondas’ Mężczyźni z enklaw biedy . It is the case because this is a rare book that does not confl ate gender studies with women’s studies and examines the livelihood of pauperized and marginalized men in the emerg- ing post-socialist ‘ghettos.’ Alas, it is not the case because this thought provoking book has stirred virtually no controversies in the world of Polish feminism and gender studies. Th e volume is based upon interviews with members of 23 families living in one of the 17 enclaves of poverty in the city of Łódź. In the late 1990s these constituted 44,000 people out of 750,000 city dwellers. Although women have also been interviewed, it is the three generations of men who are the subject of the book: ‘fathers’
Journal
East Central Europe – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 2009