Agnieszka Kościańska
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 179395 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Agnieszka Kościańska |
| NOMBRES | Agnieszka |
| APELLIDO | Kościańska |
| FIRMA | KOŚCIAŃSKA A |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Warsaw |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5512-425X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 18 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 13 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2007 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Productive Sexological Self-Censorship in Late Communist Poland between State and Church
Poland
The departure point for this essay is the massive 2020 pro-choice protests following a ruling by Poland's Constitutional Tribunal that restricted access to abortion. The essay analyzes police violence during these demonstrations, which was mostly directed at young, urban, middle-class women, and draws attention to changing Polish attitudes toward the police and their brutality vis-à-vis notions of class, gender, race, and ethnicity. In the preced…
Regendering Childbirth
This article examines the work of the gynecologist Włodzimierz Fijałkowski, the key promoter of preparation for childbirth in Communist and early democratic Poland. From the late 1950s until the 1990s, Fijałkowski developed a childbirth preparation training protocol that served as an inspiration for childbirth preparation schools across the country. Through analysis of Fijałkowski’s publications in medical journals, books aimed at both profession…
To See a Moose
Guiding the reader through the development of sex education in Poland, Agnieszka Kościańska looks at how it has changed from the 19th century to the present day. The book compares how sex was described in school textbooks, including those scrapped by the communists for fear of offending religious sentiments, and explores how the Catholic church retained its power in Poland under various regimes. The book also identifies the women and men who chan…
Contact building
In Poland after World War II, the related fields of sexology, sex education and sex counselling developed a distinctive model of communication between counsellees and counsellors. This article focuses on Wiesław Sokoluk, one of the key Polish youth counsellors and sex educators active during the late socialist period (the 1970s and 1980s), looking at his path to becoming a sex educator and youth counsellor as well as his practice in both fields. …
Catholic Intimacies
The majority of people in Poland self-identified as Catholic throughout the second half of the twentieth century. Despite the Polish Episcopate's unanimous rejection of contraception as immoral and sinful, a considerable proportion of Polish Catholics utilized family planning techniques and technologies explicitly banned by their institutional Church. This article uses personal narratives to show how Polish Catholics negotiated their use of Churc…
Gender, Pleasure, and Violence
Kobieta powinna decydować w swoim sumieniu” – o katolickimi zaangażowaniu w protesty przeciwko zakazowi aborcji w Polsce
W październiku 2020 roku wyrok Trybunału Konstytucyjnego, znacząco ograniczający możliwość wykonywania legalnej aborcji w Polsce, wywołał masowe protesty w całym kraju. Do demonstracji przyłączyło się wielu pobożnych katolików, mimo że były one skierowane nie tylko przeciwko rządowi, ale i Kościołowi katolickiemu, popierającemu zmiany w prawie. Odpowiadają one bowiem jego oficjalnemu stanowisku wobec planowania rodziny. Bazując na badaniach archi…
Gender on Trial
Since 1932, Poland has had a progressive law regarding rape, according to which rape is defined regardless of the relationship between the rapist and the victim or their gender. However, this law has not been fully executed because of widespread stereotypes concerning rape. This paper draws on multiple ethnographic and archival sources and focuses on the changes in discourses on rape and court practices in rape cases that have occurred since the …
Viagra
Viagra ( sildenafil citrate ) is the most popular sexuopharmaceutical (i.e., sexual lifestyle drug) used to treat erectile dysfunctions. Since its first appearance on the market in 1998, Viagra has been at the center of controversies related to the message it conveys about sexuality, gender, and relationships. Social scientific interest in Viagra also developed shortly after the drug was introduced. Researchers point to Viagra's contribution to t…
The Image of the Polish Mother, and Mother of God
Sex on equal terms? Polish sexology on women’s emancipation and ‘good sex’ from the 1970s to the present
This article is based on discourse analysis of Polish sexological publications in the 1970s and 1980s, as well as on ethnographic fieldwork among contemporary sex experts. In these publications, sustaining so-called traditional gender roles was perceived as a necessary condition for a good sex life, and women’s emancipation was presented as an obstacle to this process. At the same time, sex was presented as an important element of personal, marit…
The science of sex in a space of uncertainty
Płeć, przyjemność i przemoc. Kształtowanie wiedzy eksperckiej o seksualności w Polsce
W PRL o życiu intymnym pisano niemało. Z publikowanych przez seksuologów książek i artykułów czytelnicy dowiadywali się, co jest normalne, zdrowe, kulturalne i przyjemne. Lekarze, a także prawnicy, zajmowali się również przemocą, analizowali przyczyny
Beyond Viagra
In the 1970s and 1980s, Poland, like most other countries in the region, provided not only unlimited access to abortion and contraceptives, but also a liberal sex education. This period moreover constituted a golden age in sexology in the country. Sexual science developed as a holistic discipline, embracing achievements in medicine, psychology, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, history, and religious studies, providing recourses for sex educat…
Les groupes de femmes non féministes
Pourquoi n'existe-t-il pas de mouvement féministe dans la Pologne de l'après-socialisme ? Une enquête ethnographique conduite auprès de Polonaises catholiques converties à un nouveau mouvement religieux permet d'explorer cette question. Peu satisfaites des relations de genre qu'elles expérimentent, ces femmes, au lieu de devenir féministes, se conforment à une discipline ascétique stricte, ce qui les conduit à réorganiser totalement leurs relatio…
"The "power of silence
This article looks at various models of women's agency in Poland in the context of religion. Based on fieldwork among members of two feminized religious milieus-a new religious movement the Brahma Kumaris and an informal Catholic fundamentalist group-this article discusses the role of silence in ritual and everyday life as a form of agency. From the perspective of feminist discourse, particularly Western liberal feminism, silence is often interpr…
Gender. Perspektywa antropologiczna. Tom I
An anthology of 11 texts by foreign authors, both classic and new, written for this collection, gathered in three parts: "Family and kinship", "Gender and the nation, state and tribal organization", "Gender in the postcolonial world". The book contains both theoretical articles and texts analyzing the results of ethnographic field research in various parts of the world.
"The "power of silence
This article looks at various models of women's agency in Poland in the context of religion. Based on fieldwork among members of two feminized religious milieus-a new religious movement the Brahma Kumaris and an informal Catholic fundamentalist group-this article discusses the role of silence in ritual and everyday life as a form of agency. From the perspective of feminist discourse, particularly Western liberal feminism, silence is often interpr…
The science of sex in a space of uncertainty
Kobieta powinna decydować w swoim sumieniu” – o katolickimi zaangażowaniu w protesty przeciwko zakazowi aborcji w Polsce
W październiku 2020 roku wyrok Trybunału Konstytucyjnego, znacząco ograniczający możliwość wykonywania legalnej aborcji w Polsce, wywołał masowe protesty w całym kraju. Do demonstracji przyłączyło się wielu pobożnych katolików, mimo że były one skierowane nie tylko przeciwko rządowi, ale i Kościołowi katolickiemu, popierającemu zmiany w prawie. Odpowiadają one bowiem jego oficjalnemu stanowisku wobec planowania rodziny. Bazując na badaniach archi…
Poland
The departure point for this essay is the massive 2020 pro-choice protests following a ruling by Poland's Constitutional Tribunal that restricted access to abortion. The essay analyzes police violence during these demonstrations, which was mostly directed at young, urban, middle-class women, and draws attention to changing Polish attitudes toward the police and their brutality vis-à-vis notions of class, gender, race, and ethnicity. In the preced…
Catholic Intimacies
The majority of people in Poland self-identified as Catholic throughout the second half of the twentieth century. Despite the Polish Episcopate's unanimous rejection of contraception as immoral and sinful, a considerable proportion of Polish Catholics utilized family planning techniques and technologies explicitly banned by their institutional Church. This article uses personal narratives to show how Polish Catholics negotiated their use of Churc…
Gender on Trial
Since 1932, Poland has had a progressive law regarding rape, according to which rape is defined regardless of the relationship between the rapist and the victim or their gender. However, this law has not been fully executed because of widespread stereotypes concerning rape. This paper draws on multiple ethnographic and archival sources and focuses on the changes in discourses on rape and court practices in rape cases that have occurred since the …
Beyond Viagra
In the 1970s and 1980s, Poland, like most other countries in the region, provided not only unlimited access to abortion and contraceptives, but also a liberal sex education. This period moreover constituted a golden age in sexology in the country. Sexual science developed as a holistic discipline, embracing achievements in medicine, psychology, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, history, and religious studies, providing recourses for sex educat…
Gender. Perspektywa antropologiczna. Tom I
An anthology of 11 texts by foreign authors, both classic and new, written for this collection, gathered in three parts: "Family and kinship", "Gender and the nation, state and tribal organization", "Gender in the postcolonial world". The book contains both theoretical articles and texts analyzing the results of ethnographic field research in various parts of the world.
"The "power of silence
This article looks at various models of women's agency in Poland in the context of religion. Based on fieldwork among members of two feminized religious milieus-a new religious movement the Brahma Kumaris and an informal Catholic fundamentalist group-this article discusses the role of silence in ritual and everyday life as a form of agency. From the perspective of feminist discourse, particularly Western liberal feminism, silence is often interpr…
Les groupes de femmes non féministes
Pourquoi n'existe-t-il pas de mouvement féministe dans la Pologne de l'après-socialisme ? Une enquête ethnographique conduite auprès de Polonaises catholiques converties à un nouveau mouvement religieux permet d'explorer cette question. Peu satisfaites des relations de genre qu'elles expérimentent, ces femmes, au lieu de devenir féministes, se conforment à une discipline ascétique stricte, ce qui les conduit à réorganiser totalement leurs relatio…
Płeć, przyjemność i przemoc. Kształtowanie wiedzy eksperckiej o seksualności w Polsce
W PRL o życiu intymnym pisano niemało. Z publikowanych przez seksuologów książek i artykułów czytelnicy dowiadywali się, co jest normalne, zdrowe, kulturalne i przyjemne. Lekarze, a także prawnicy, zajmowali się również przemocą, analizowali przyczyny
Beyond Viagra
In the 1970s and 1980s, Poland, like most other countries in the region, provided not only unlimited access to abortion and contraceptives, but also a liberal sex education. This period moreover constituted a golden age in sexology in the country. Sexual science developed as a holistic discipline, embracing achievements in medicine, psychology, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, history, and religious studies, providing recourses for sex educat…
The Image of the Polish Mother, and Mother of God
Sex on equal terms? Polish sexology on women’s emancipation and ‘good sex’ from the 1970s to the present
This article is based on discourse analysis of Polish sexological publications in the 1970s and 1980s, as well as on ethnographic fieldwork among contemporary sex experts. In these publications, sustaining so-called traditional gender roles was perceived as a necessary condition for a good sex life, and women’s emancipation was presented as an obstacle to this process. At the same time, sex was presented as an important element of personal, marit…
The science of sex in a space of uncertainty
Viagra
Viagra ( sildenafil citrate ) is the most popular sexuopharmaceutical (i.e., sexual lifestyle drug) used to treat erectile dysfunctions. Since its first appearance on the market in 1998, Viagra has been at the center of controversies related to the message it conveys about sexuality, gender, and relationships. Social scientific interest in Viagra also developed shortly after the drug was introduced. Researchers point to Viagra's contribution to t…
Gender on Trial
Since 1932, Poland has had a progressive law regarding rape, according to which rape is defined regardless of the relationship between the rapist and the victim or their gender. However, this law has not been fully executed because of widespread stereotypes concerning rape. This paper draws on multiple ethnographic and archival sources and focuses on the changes in discourses on rape and court practices in rape cases that have occurred since the …
Gender, Pleasure, and Violence
Kobieta powinna decydować w swoim sumieniu” – o katolickimi zaangażowaniu w protesty przeciwko zakazowi aborcji w Polsce
W październiku 2020 roku wyrok Trybunału Konstytucyjnego, znacząco ograniczający możliwość wykonywania legalnej aborcji w Polsce, wywołał masowe protesty w całym kraju. Do demonstracji przyłączyło się wielu pobożnych katolików, mimo że były one skierowane nie tylko przeciwko rządowi, ale i Kościołowi katolickiemu, popierającemu zmiany w prawie. Odpowiadają one bowiem jego oficjalnemu stanowisku wobec planowania rodziny. Bazując na badaniach archi…
To See a Moose
Guiding the reader through the development of sex education in Poland, Agnieszka Kościańska looks at how it has changed from the 19th century to the present day. The book compares how sex was described in school textbooks, including those scrapped by the communists for fear of offending religious sentiments, and explores how the Catholic church retained its power in Poland under various regimes. The book also identifies the women and men who chan…
Contact building
In Poland after World War II, the related fields of sexology, sex education and sex counselling developed a distinctive model of communication between counsellees and counsellors. This article focuses on Wiesław Sokoluk, one of the key Polish youth counsellors and sex educators active during the late socialist period (the 1970s and 1980s), looking at his path to becoming a sex educator and youth counsellor as well as his practice in both fields. …
Catholic Intimacies
The majority of people in Poland self-identified as Catholic throughout the second half of the twentieth century. Despite the Polish Episcopate's unanimous rejection of contraception as immoral and sinful, a considerable proportion of Polish Catholics utilized family planning techniques and technologies explicitly banned by their institutional Church. This article uses personal narratives to show how Polish Catholics negotiated their use of Churc…
Regendering Childbirth
This article examines the work of the gynecologist Włodzimierz Fijałkowski, the key promoter of preparation for childbirth in Communist and early democratic Poland. From the late 1950s until the 1990s, Fijałkowski developed a childbirth preparation training protocol that served as an inspiration for childbirth preparation schools across the country. Through analysis of Fijałkowski’s publications in medical journals, books aimed at both profession…
Productive Sexological Self-Censorship in Late Communist Poland between State and Church
Poland
The departure point for this essay is the massive 2020 pro-choice protests following a ruling by Poland's Constitutional Tribunal that restricted access to abortion. The essay analyzes police violence during these demonstrations, which was mostly directed at young, urban, middle-class women, and draws attention to changing Polish attitudes toward the police and their brutality vis-à-vis notions of class, gender, race, and ethnicity. In the preced…
Gender Studies (13 obras) · Sociology (13 obras) · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies (11 obras) · European history and politics (9 obras) · Law (9 obras) · Political science (9 obras) · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes (7 obras) · Politics (7 obras) · History (6 obras) · Computer Science (5 obras)