Women's pictures and the politics of resistance in Poland

Author: Oleksy Elżbieta  

Publisher: Routledge Ltd

ISSN: 0803-8740

Source: NORA: Nordic Journal of Women's Studies, Vol.12, Iss.3, 2004-11, pp. : 162-171

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Abstract

The paper focuses on the understudied troping of women as the embodiment of nationhood in the region of East-Central Europe with a particular emphasis on the scenarios of resistance to these persisting images of women. Focusing on the terrain most familiar to the author, that is Poland, the essay demonstrates that various projects aimed at decolonizing the female body undertaken by contemporary Polish representatives of critical art (e.g. Dorota Nieznalska, Katarzyna Kozyra and Alicja Żebrowska) serve as currents of contestation that provoke debate that is necessary to change the conservative, predominantly Catholic, Polish society.