Abstract
ABSTRACT This paper aims to describe a model of companionate marriage developed in postwar Poland. It traces the evolution of ideas around marriage and gender roles from the interwar to the postwar period. The paper focuses on popular understandings of gender and marriage, and takes advantage of a collection of original personal narratives written in the 1960s. A comparison between memoirs written by authors married in the interwar and postwar period reveals that understandings of gender roles and relations between husband and wife changed. The postwar period saw the emergence of a new ideal of marriage, based on sharing and equality. To describe this new model, the author draws on the concept of companionate marriage. The paper discusses the features of companionship in postwar state-socialist Poland, in order to connect the debate on marital relations under state socialism to broader discussion on the modernization of marriage in postwar Europe.
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