Praca miłości. Poezja kobiet wobec reprodukcji życia codziennego

Szopa discusses the reproduction of everyday life in two volumes of poetry published in the first half of the 1970s, namely Anna Świrszczyńska’s Jestem baba [I am a Woman] and Krystyna Miłobędzka’s Dom, pokarmy [House, Nourishment]. Exploring the two women poets’ work from the perspective of feminist theories of social reproduction, Szopa suggests that there is a close relationship between the grassroots movement of women’s emancipation in the Polish People’s Republic and women’s literary and poetic productivity. This perspective is perceptible in the two volumes discussed here, where the question of women’s reproductive labour becomes the main theme and emancipatory strategy-