Developments and Changes in Polish and East Central European Women’s and Gender History

The article aims to deconstruct the narrative of Polish and East Central European Women’s and Gender History, on the one hand, as one of catching up or playing catch-up, and, on the other, as of otherness and specificity. It offers insights into that history beyond the oppositions of progress and backwardness or of an exotic specificity. Using the examples of research topics and recently published studies, I will highlight ways of decentralizing gender history via (1) presenting the possibilities of transregionality, (2) proposing transgressive use of studies from divergent contexts or with divergent topics, and (3) expanding the scope of discussions about paradigms.