Krystyna Kłosińska
Wielogłos, Numer 2 (10) 2011: Krytyka feministyczna – dokonania i perspektywy, 2011, s. 37 - 39
https://doi.org/10.4467/2084395XWI.12.016.0538Post Scriptum
The text constitutes an attempt to provide an answer to the question: “What uses can literary studies derive from feminism and what pitfalls can be expected in connection with it?” Right at the very beginning, the authoress distinguishes between the concept of “feminism” and that of “feministic literary criticism” and subsequently she mentions the most important inspirations derived by literary studies from the feminist movement. While enumerating the benefits and advantages which flow from these inspirations, she also warns against some negative consequences of the ideological pressure exerted by feminism on literary studies.
Krystyna Kłosińska
Przekładaniec, Numer 24 – Myśl feministyczna a przekład, 2010, s. 228 - 246
https://doi.org/10.4467/16891864PC.11.014.0213Krystyna Kłosińska
Wielogłos, Numer 3 (49) 2021, 2021, s. 107 - 126
https://doi.org/10.4467/2084395XWI.21.024.15039Misandry. Around Pauline Harmange’s Essay I Hate Men
The object of reflection is Pauline Harmange’s famous essay, I Hate Men (2020). I start from the perturbations it caused on the political scene, then try to situate it on the French map of feminist and anti-feminist movements since the 1970s, asking about the place from which the young essayist speaks. I consider the central issue to be the misandric discourse she has activated, and around it I (re)construct a spectrum of issues that, in her view, illuminate it. I trace the “archaeology” of the word misandry, which is not anchored in the everyday reality, including the academic one. I ask about its function by juxtaposing two contradictory perspectives: Harmange’s feminist one and the anti-feminist one whose activists proclaim misogynist and sexist slogans. The symmetrical or asymmetrical approaches to misandry and misogyny are also arranged at these poles. Harmange, while cultivating misandric attitudes among women, consistently enumerates the benefits they should derive from misandry.