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Against Theory: Selected “Girlhood” Feminist Artistic Practices in Poland

Publication date: 20.11.2019

Arts & Cultural Studies Review, 2019, Issue 2 (40), pp. 211 - 228

https://doi.org/10.4467/20843860PK.19.012.10907

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Marta Kosińska
Adama Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Cultural Studies Faculty, ul. Szamarzewskiego 89A, Poznań
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Karolina Sikorska
Uniwersytet im. Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu, Katedra Kulturoznawstwa, ul. Fosa Staromiejska 3 87-100 Toruń
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Against Theory: Selected “Girlhood” Feminist Artistic Practices in Poland

Abstract

The mass public protests against introduction of further limitations on women’s reproductive rights in 2016 become important moment for the Polish feminist movement. Yet, the movement’s structure and semiotic reservoir of justifi cations has visibly changed in the recent years. The young Polish feminism has become more “girlish” than “womanly”. In our paper, we analyze how the “girlhood” artistic practices fi t into the renewal of contemporary refl ection on the gender roles of women and the Polish feminist movement. We analyzed practices of young Polish artivists, involved in girlhood-feminist collectives, and compared their cultural tactics with those of selfi e feminism. The paper focuses on girlhood practices as activities which take place across the individual and collective divide and redefi ne the public sphere. Demonstrating how these initiatives negotiate the normative cultural system, we present expressions of the girlhood experience and describe its social and structural conditions. We analyze feminist artistic practices as expressible and language-based feminine emancipatory practices, using tools typical of analysis of discourse and, predominantly, linguistic performance.

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Information: Arts & Cultural Studies Review, 2019, Issue 2 (40), pp. 211 - 228

Article type: Original article

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Against Theory: Selected “Girlhood” Feminist Artistic Practices in Poland
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Against Theory: Selected “Girlhood” Feminist Artistic Practices in Poland

Authors

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4823-2893

Marta Kosińska
Adama Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Cultural Studies Faculty, ul. Szamarzewskiego 89A, Poznań
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4823-2893 Orcid
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Adama Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Cultural Studies Faculty, ul. Szamarzewskiego 89A, Poznań

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9947-6516

Karolina Sikorska
Uniwersytet im. Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu, Katedra Kulturoznawstwa, ul. Fosa Staromiejska 3 87-100 Toruń
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9947-6516 Orcid
All publications →

Uniwersytet im. Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu, Katedra Kulturoznawstwa, ul. Fosa Staromiejska 3 87-100 Toruń

Published at: 20.11.2019

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