Naukowe „bojownice”. Pierwsze uczone i badaczki w Uniwersytecie Poznańskim

The purpose of this article is to present the issue of emancipation through education on the example of the stories of the first female scholars of the University of Poznan that we have studied. The aim of the presented research is to discover unknown biographies, document legacies and traces, and preserve the memory of the first female researchers and scholars of the interwar period who worked and co-founded the University of Poznan – against the broader background of women’s struggle for equal rights to education. The goal is also to popularize the figures and achievements of extraordinary women, heroines of their time, pioneers, believers in the emancipatory power of science, education and reason, who influenced the social landscape of Poznan and the Second Republic

Discourse analysis · Emancipation · Higher education · Interwar period · Labour Market and Migration · Polish Historical and Cultural Studies · Polish-Jewish Holocaust Memory Studies