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The Grasinski Girls - The Choices They Had and the Choices They Made (Paperback, 1)
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The Grasinski Girls - The Choices They Had and the Choices They Made (Paperback, 1)
Series: Polish and Polish-American Studies Series
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The Grasinski Girls were working-class Americans of Polish descent,
born in the 1920s and 1930s, who created lives typical of women in
their day. They went to high school, married, and had children. For
the most part, they stayed home to raise their children. And they
were happy doing that. They took care of their appearance and their
husbands, who took care of them. Like most women of their
generation, they did not join the women's movement, and today they
either reject or shy away from feminism. Basing her account on
interviews with her mother and aunts, Mary Erdmans explores the
private lives of these white, Christian women in the post-World War
II generation. She compares them, at times, to her own postfeminist
generation. Situating these women within the religious routines
that shaped their lives, Professor Erdmans explores how gender,
class, ethnicity, and religion shaped the choices the Grasinski
sisters were given as well as the choices they made. These women
are both acted upon and actors; they are privileged and
disadvantaged; they resist and surrender; they petition the Lord
and accept His will. The Grasinski Girls examines the complexity of
ordinary lives, exposing privileges taken for granted as well as
nuances of oppression often overlooked. Erdmans brings rigorous
scholarship and familial insight to bear on the realities of
twentieth-century working-class white women in America.
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