Solidarity's disappearing women.(Solidarity's Secret: The Women Who Defeated Communism in Poland )(Book review) From: The Women's Review of Books | Date: July 1, 2006| Author: Robinson, Jean C. | COPYRIGHT 2006 Old City Publishing, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Solidarity's Secret: The Women Who Defeated Communism in Poland By Shana Penn Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 200S, 372 pp., $34.95, hardcover

Women comprised half of the membership of Solidarity, the first free trade union in Poland since before World War II. Under communist rule, women appeared to be partners with men in the Polish workforce, just as they appeared to be partners with men in the resistance to the communist state throughout the 1980s. Howeve...