The article focuses on the changing norms of morality around sexuality in the first two decades of the People’s Republic of Poland. The diary narrative analysed reveals tensions connected to the rural-urban migration process, embracing a significant portion of the Polish population. In the course of this process it became necessary to re-negotiate one’s habitus instilled during the primary socialisation process; this laid bare the tensions between countryside and city, both economic and cultural, especially in regards to sex and marriage. Another axis of analysis in the article is gender; the analysed narrative is that of a woman, which enables the identification of the cultural constructs of rural and urban femininities, and the differences between them. The article opens with explorations of cultural images of rural sexuality, and then goes on to analyse the diary narrative comprising the source material.
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