Gender and contemporary Polish society 3402-00GCPS-OG

Ever social order, in its temporal, historical context, can be analyzed and described through gender lenses. In other words, every society represents certain gender regime, differently positioning men, women and those with non-binary and trans- gender identities within social structure. This course examines how “gender” structures and is being structured within the domains of polity, economy, religion, violence, reproduction and resistance, in case of contemporary Polish society. It provides a comprehensive overview of the most crucial issues and debates related to Poland, gender and its intersections with class, level of ability, place of living, religion, ethnic origin, sexual orientation, and gender identity. It brings together up-to-date knowledge presented in recent academic, research papers, which employ different methodological approaches (discourse analysis, individual interviews, biographical research) and different kinds of data, both quantitative and qualitative.

Koordynatorzy przedmiotu

Marta Rawłuszko

Rodzaj przedmiotu

ogólnouniwersyteckie

Efekty kształcenia

Knows and understands the concept of gender, gender order and gender regime,
Has comprehensive knowledge about gender inequalities of the contemporary Polish society,
Has comprehensive knowledge about contemporary Polish society and gender politics: main issues, actors, and tensions,
Has comprehensive knowledge about intersections in between gender and other dimensions of social structuring (disability, class, place of living, sexual orientation, ethnic origin etc.) in contemporary Polish society,
Can reflexively assess current political processes related to gender order in Polish society, also in wider context of Central Eastern Europe, Europeanization, East/West divisions, anti-gender mobilizations,
Can identify up-to-date academic research and data connected to the Polish society and gender order,
Can use the concept of gender in relation to other key notions of politics, economy, violence, reproduction,
Develops their public discussion skills in English,
Develops their presentation and writing skills in English

Kryteria oceniania

Class attendance – 40%
Level of active engagement in class discussion – 20%
Oral presentation – 20%
Reading critical summary (written) – 20%

Literatura

Proposed literature:

1. Bucholc, M., Gospodarczyk, M. (2024). Feminist Mobilization, Abortion Law and Political Images of Womanhood: Feminists as “the Worst Minority”, In Marta Bucholc (ed) Established-Outsiders Relations in Poland. Reconfiguring Elias and Scotson. Palgrave Macmillan.
2. Blachnicka-Ciacek, D., Urbańska, S. (2025). Eastern Europe’s ‘peripheral whiteness’: class andgender racialization among Polish migrants and returnees. Identities. Global Studies in Culture and Power.
3. Dziuban, A. (2024). Imposed Mobility, Legal Ambiguity, Institutionalized Abandonment: Exploring the Sex Work Crimscape in Contemporary Poland, Critical Criminalogy 32: 357-374.
4. Kajta, J. (2020). Why Nationalism? Biographies and Motives of Participants in the Polish Nationalist Movement Intersections. East European Journal Of Society And Politics, 6(4): 131–154.
5. Kłonkowska, A. (2022). “…I’m Not Unaccepting, I’m Just Concerned…”. The Struggles of Polish Parents of Trans Youths, Polish Sociological Review, 3(212): 407-422.
6. Koralewska, I., Zielińska, K. (2022). ‘Defending the unborn’, ‘protecting women’ and ‘preserving culture and nation’: anti-abortion discourse in the Polish right-wing press, Culture, Health & Sexuality, 24:5, 673-687
7. Kosińska, M., Sikorska, K. (2025). Navigating Neoliberal Pressures and Patriarchal Legacies: The Lasting Impact of Feudal–Patriarchal Work Relations in Polish Artistic Universities. Gender, Work & Organization, 379-389.
8. Król, A. (2024). Stratified reproduction and ableism: Women with disabilities and navigating reproduction and social control in Poland. European Journal of Women’s Studies, 31(2): 246-261.
9. Narkowicz, K. (2023). White enough, not white enough: racism and racialisation among Poles in the UK, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 49:6, 1534-1551.
10. Nguyễn Vũ, T. L., Ohia-Nowak, M. (2025). Promises of Blackness in the State Socialist Public Sphere in Poland, Slavic Review, 84: 515–523.
11. Ratecka, A. (2023). Sex Work Policy in Poland and Its Impact on the Lived Experience of Sex Workers, Croatian Political Science Review, 60(4): 35-60.
12. Rawłuszko, M., Grabowska, M. (2026). Social Reproduction as Resistance: Abortion, Refugees, and Illegitimate Care. Social Politics.
13. Snochowska-Gonzalez, C. (2025). How Do You Feel In Polish? On Men’s Emotions, the Refusal of Compassion and the Politics of Feelings of the National Democrats. Acta Poloniae Historica 131: 105-128.
14. Straczuk, J. (2024). ‘Hybrid war’, military humanitarianism, and epistemic friction. Framing illegalised migration on the Polish-Belarusian border. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 50(16), 4234–4252.
15. Suwada, K. (2022). Care involvement and power relations. Parenting and gender in contemporary Poland. Journal of Family Research, 34(3): 892-911
16. Szwed, A. (2025). Religion Lived In-Between: Time, Space, and Religious Practices of Roman Catholic Women in Poland. Sociology of Religion: A Quarterly Review, 86(2): 220-242.
17. Urbańska, S., Leszczyńska, K., Zielińska, K. (2023) Bargaining with gendered egalitarianism. A transnational compensatory patriarchy in Polish Catholic Missions in England, Belgium, Sweden, Gender, Place & Culture, 30:9, 1325-1346.
18. Tomanek, P. (2025). Names with Class: Education and Occupation as Determinants of Name Preferences Among Polish Mothers, Polish Sociological Review, 4(232): 385-406.

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