Płeć i władza w kontekstach historycznych i współczesnych
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Date
2014
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Instytut Kultury Europejskiej UAM w Gnieźnie
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Abstract
The book addresses the issue of relationships between gender and power. Although
the subject has been analysed on many occassions and in a variety of fashions, the
volume does not duplicate the well-known views, but points to the limitations of the
previous approaches and suggests possibilities of overcoming those. For the authors
of the featured texts, gender also denotes sex in the biological sense, while power
does not mean the omnipotent techniques of control, but also strategies of active
resistance and emancipation. Having applied a different interpretative paradigm, the
authors pose new questions to the already known research material: How to define
the category of gender/sex in today's (trans)gender world? In what way do the
deliberations on the nature and essence of power affect gender? Do men and women
function equally within the machinery of power, assuming the roles of clearly
defined cogs, i.e. the dominant (men) and the dominated (women) ones?
Answering such questions requires a broad perspective, ranging from antiquity,
when power was “invented” by being attributing one gender (though not without
exceptions) and when the canon of speaking of what is “female” and “male” was
devised, to the contemporary times, in which both categories and their mutual
relationships undergo radical reevaluation.
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Lasy Państwowe, Nadleśnictwo Karczma Borowa, Print Point 3D Studio Agencja Reklamowa, Spec-Poż-Serwis mgr inż. Zdzisław Bonikowski
Keywords
płeć, władza
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ACTA HUMANISTICA GNESNENSIA;1
ISBN
978-83-60251-89-8