Shame or Pride? Unwanted Pregnancy and Abortion in Novels for Girls in the Polish People's Republic and Today

This article examines novels for girls that deal with unlawful pregnancy and abortion, comparing those that were published in the Polish People's,Republic with those that came out in the recent past. The study focuses on changing notions of shame and pride as tools of power and/or fuel for emancipation. Szybowicz is interested in the plots, characters, the language used by the characters, as well as rhetoric strategies in the novels, which she reads as manifestations of the dominant discourses of their times.