A manly artefact and a mysterious poet : around queer theory

The article deals with an interpretation of a poem by Zofia Trzeszczkowska entitled 'Posąg' (Statue). The text becomes a starting point for presentation of several 'gender-sensitive' reading strategies. The first part: a 'Non-gender-sensitive reading', attempts at reading the poem in a context of the ekphrasis theory and the Platonic reflection on arts and artistic creation. The following chapter - 'Gender-sensitive reading' - interprets the poem as a love monologue with a dominant record of homoerotic desire and fascination with man's carnality. The third part, headed 'Sexuality-sensitive reading', concerns the speaking 'I' - the identity of the lyrical 'I' is namely weak, unstable, escaping any attempted classification. This makes the poem a text speaking of admiration/delight and desire/lust in general. The article is concluded by theoretical considerations on new trends in literary criticism (those building on 'gender', 'gay' and 'queer' notions)

Poczet feministów polskich XIX wieku

Mateusz Skucha – dr hab., adiunkt w Katedrze Teorii Literatury Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego. Zainteresowania badawcze obejmują literaturę XIX wieku oraz krytykę feministyczną, teorię gender i queer, masculinities studies, a także kulturę chińską.Uniwersytet Jagielloński w Krakowie41943

Różnicowanie płci : Pawła Dybla "Zagadka "drugiej płci"" : spory wokół różnicy seksualnej w psychoanalizie i w feminizmie

Recenzja książki P. Dybla, Zagadka „drugiej płci”. Spory wokół różnicy seksualnej w psychoanalizie i w feminizmie, Kraków 200

Kłębowisko postkolonii. Božidara Jezernika Dzika Europa. Bałkany w oczach zachodnich podróżników

Recenzja książki B. Jezernika, Dzika Europa. Bałkany w oczach zachodnich podróżników, przeł. P. Oczko, Kraków 2007

Emancipationists and their emancipator

The article discusses Maciej Duda’s book Emancypanci i emancypatorzy. Mężczyźni wspierający emancypację Polek w drugiej połowie XIX i na początku XX wieku (The men that supported the emancipation of Polish women in the second half of the 19th and at the beginning of the 20th centuries). In the introduction I point the issues that can be problematic for a researcher examining history of men who supported pro-feminist movements (difficulties with naming, resistance of feminists, number of publicists). Next I discuss the composition and methodology used by the author and main areas of the research. I also draw some critical comments. At the end I ascertain that the book is really valuable because it completes the gap in Polish research of the history of feminism