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Płeć kulturowa. Kobieta między rzeczywistością realną a światem narzuconych znaczeń

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Stach-Hejosz M.
Świat i Słowo
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2014
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vol. 12
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issue (1)22
137-148
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Polish gender studies lecturers, on the grounds of translations of well known western feminists such as J. Butler, A. Rich, E. Badiner, S. de Beauvoir, are of the opinion, that the roles of both women and men are defined by culture, and the problem of sex identity is the outcome of social, historical and cultural relations, which make the feminine “otherness” related to women’s worse social situation. Just that “otherness”, “dissimilarity”, “non-identity” of women towards men is the source of their discrimination. A woman must then masculinise herself in appearance through the change of stylistics of her body, and inwardly through the presentation of features habitually attributed to men: domination, rationality, effectiveness, individualism, determination, abstract thinking, aggression, self-confidence and independence. It can be noticed, that in the name of social equality of sexes, Polish gender activists will deprive women of typically feminine features, regarding them as less talented than their male equivalent. An attempt to relieve women from stereotyped socially imposed evaluations affects in turn in the evaluation of women’s competences conditioned by stereotyped thinking. Thereby gender studies experts assess feminine features as inappropriate and of little value. Such a generalization is also a stereotype, namely a conviction, that all women are only emotional, indecisive, or not effective enough. They cannot think logically, are susceptible to stress and have low self-esteem. A woman with feminine features is in gender theories uncomplimentary, incomplete, not equal to man, that is why she must be completed with typically masculine features. The presentation of women in gender studies as helpless victims of men, creates their image of a legally incapacitated, deprived of the possibility to decide about themselves, and it is a vision which does not correspond with reality. Equalizing women’s social chances, considering them as “worse” than men seems to be preposterous.
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