On the challenges of headmistressship and the sources of female authority in secondary education: reflections on the unpublished memoir of Romana Pachucka (1886–1964)

Piotrowska-Marchewa, Monika

doi:0080-4754

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On the challenges of headmistressship and the sources of female authority in secondary education: reflections on the unpublished memoir of Romana Pachucka (1886–1964)

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Title: On the challenges of headmistressship and the sources of female authority in secondary education: reflections on the unpublished memoir of Romana Pachucka (1886–1964)

Abstract:

The autobiographical accounts of Romana Pachucka (1886–1964), an educator, renowned women’s rights activist, member of the Związek Równouprawnienia Kobiet Polskich (Union for Women’s Equal Rights in Poland), contributor to Ster, part of the first generation of Polish female students, and a long-serving headmistress of girls’ secondary schools in interwar Poland, are essential reading for researchers of the women’s movement, education, pedagogical thought, and memoir literature. These accounts are also valuable in the context of the cultural history of education, particularly concerning the seemingly narrow yet significant topic of the trajectories and importance of women’s careers in secondary education. This article aims to analyze Romana Pachucka’s educational activities from a gender perspective, based on an unpublished section of her memoirs covering the years 1914–1936, tentatively titled Struggle by the author. The core of the manuscript is devoted to her many years of work at the Maria Konopnicka Gymnasium in Suwałki and the Emilia Sczaniecka Gymnasium in Łódź, where Pachucka served as headmistress.

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Rozprawy z Dziejów Oświaty

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Start page:

119

End page:

142

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Article : original article

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0080-4754 ; oai:rcin.org.pl:247807

Language:

pol

Language of abstract:

eng

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Instytut Historii Nauki im. Ludwika i Aleksandra Birkenmajerów PAN

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Library of the Institute for the History of Science PAS

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Subject and keywords:

Romana Pachucka gender headmistresses of secondary schools women's teaching careers gender aspects of education in interwar Poland

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1958-, Rozprawy z Dziejów Oświaty

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Piotrowska-Marchewa, Monika, On the challenges of headmistressship and the sources of female authority in secondary education: reflections on the unpublished memoir of Romana Pachucka (1886–1964)	Dec 29, 2025