369:. The book looked at how change affects women's lives in times of major upheaval around Europe. Furthermore, the book sought to understand its subject's cultural reality from a Western-feminist viewpoint. Reading split the book into two parts. Part one observes the Polish female experience from an outsider's perspective. In this part, she discusses how Polish literature and arts paint a picture of women's lives defined by male-run organisations and family employment. While part two questions whether the lifestyles conveyed in part one are the only way to view Reading's subjects' lives. And therefore, it presents a reality where women struggle but engage with the restrictions on their lives—therefore redefining themselves as individuals actively changing their lives in ways relevant to them. One of the book's recurring themes was the Polish words 'grancia' and 'kresy', the former meaning 'fixed and static border' and the latter meaning permeable changing border. Structurally, Reading's viewpoint transitions from an outsider's perspective, i.e. someone behind a static border, to an insider's perspective. The book's final section covers the various
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the subjective experiences arising from those decisions are transferred into memories of the atrocity. Moreover, as a remedy, Reading argues that contemporary
Holocaust representations should portray the experiential dichotomy arising from gender. However, Reading clarifies that while gender shouldn't be omitted from historiographical Holocaust accounts, historians shouldn't see gender as a means of relativising the Nazi's anti-Semitic agenda. Finally, by highlighting gender, specifically its role in memory articulation, Reading posits a deeper understanding of the events, conditions and the state's role in the genocide.
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and claimed that an interview with Poland's first sex shop inspired the play. The production aired in
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