Maria Bogucka. A Woman Writing on the History of Women

Issues related to women’s history and feminism occupied a central place in Maria Bogucka’s research. It is not without significance that her work this area corresponds the dynamic development of research on women Western Europe United States. Women, often overlooked historical research, represented important heroines only as queens or saints, but also characters whose group portrait was essentially worth recreating. Bogucka looked address (and feminist) issues biographies, monographs, articles essays. To end, she introduced findings foreign researchers into Polish historiography, emphasised specificity situation Poland over centuries.