Ludmiła Janion
Biographic Data
| ID | 669643 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ludmiła Janion |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ludmiła |
| FAMILY NAME | Janion |
| SIGNATURE | JANION L |
| AFFILIATIONS | American Studies Center, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7325-1172 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
MeToo in Poland
As in many other countries, the #MeToo movement in Poland brought forth a wave of accusations of various forms of sexual violence. In this article, we analyze public statements of men accused of sexual violence in order to explore their constructions of gendered power relations and expose the internal logic of male privilege. Using Foucauldian discourse analysis, we distinguish five discursive repertoires employed in the statements: new facts, th…
State-socialist heteromasculinity on the eve of neoliberalism
After the 1989–1992 collapse of the Soviet bloc, Eastern European countries underwent rapid socioeconomic changes from state socialism to neoliberal capitalism. Yet, research from these countries has been only scarcely used to study the neoliberalization of sexuality. To fill this gap, this article examines heterosexual masculinity in Poland at the turn of the 1980s and 1990s. Using Foucauldian approaches to discourse, I analyze how sexual proble…
"Transsexuality" and gender ratio in Poland
The article investigates scientific and journalistic discourses around differences in gender ratio among trans persons. The disparity between Poland and many other countries that was first noted in the 1980s was repeatedly associated with the different gender politics in the capitalist West and the (post) state-socialist East. Using Foucauldian methodology, the article claims that this discourse was constructed such that Poland's ratio-and conseq…
Homosexual men whose lives turned out unsuccessful”
This article investigates how the term ciota (aunty) was employed in mainstream media in the 1990s to exclude some gay men from visibility politics, and also how it was appropriated to counter these exclusions. The social, economic, and political changes of the 1990s disadvantaged “aunties” who were accused of hindering emancipation. I argue that ciota became what Judith Butler refers to as the “constitutive outside” to the masculine, restrained,…
The rise and fall of the progressive drag queen
The article studies the meanings of drag in the Polish media in the period 1989–2002. A textual analysis of mainstream as well as gay and lesbian media texts on drag queens was conducted to examine strategies that explained and legitimated drag in the context of the westernization of Polish culture, the socioeconomic changes of the 1990s, and the politics of respectability of the early Polish gay rights movement. The article shows that drag lacke…
"Transsexuality" and gender ratio in Poland
The article investigates scientific and journalistic discourses around differences in gender ratio among trans persons. The disparity between Poland and many other countries that was first noted in the 1980s was repeatedly associated with the different gender politics in the capitalist West and the (post) state-socialist East. Using Foucauldian methodology, the article claims that this discourse was constructed such that Poland's ratio-and conseq…
Homosexual men whose lives turned out unsuccessful”
This article investigates how the term ciota (aunty) was employed in mainstream media in the 1990s to exclude some gay men from visibility politics, and also how it was appropriated to counter these exclusions. The social, economic, and political changes of the 1990s disadvantaged “aunties” who were accused of hindering emancipation. I argue that ciota became what Judith Butler refers to as the “constitutive outside” to the masculine, restrained,…
The rise and fall of the progressive drag queen
The article studies the meanings of drag in the Polish media in the period 1989–2002. A textual analysis of mainstream as well as gay and lesbian media texts on drag queens was conducted to examine strategies that explained and legitimated drag in the context of the westernization of Polish culture, the socioeconomic changes of the 1990s, and the politics of respectability of the early Polish gay rights movement. The article shows that drag lacke…
Homosexual men whose lives turned out unsuccessful”
This article investigates how the term ciota (aunty) was employed in mainstream media in the 1990s to exclude some gay men from visibility politics, and also how it was appropriated to counter these exclusions. The social, economic, and political changes of the 1990s disadvantaged “aunties” who were accused of hindering emancipation. I argue that ciota became what Judith Butler refers to as the “constitutive outside” to the masculine, restrained,…
State-socialist heteromasculinity on the eve of neoliberalism
After the 1989–1992 collapse of the Soviet bloc, Eastern European countries underwent rapid socioeconomic changes from state socialism to neoliberal capitalism. Yet, research from these countries has been only scarcely used to study the neoliberalization of sexuality. To fill this gap, this article examines heterosexual masculinity in Poland at the turn of the 1980s and 1990s. Using Foucauldian approaches to discourse, I analyze how sexual proble…
"Transsexuality" and gender ratio in Poland
The article investigates scientific and journalistic discourses around differences in gender ratio among trans persons. The disparity between Poland and many other countries that was first noted in the 1980s was repeatedly associated with the different gender politics in the capitalist West and the (post) state-socialist East. Using Foucauldian methodology, the article claims that this discourse was constructed such that Poland's ratio-and conseq…
MeToo in Poland
As in many other countries, the #MeToo movement in Poland brought forth a wave of accusations of various forms of sexual violence. In this article, we analyze public statements of men accused of sexual violence in order to explore their constructions of gendered power relations and expose the internal logic of male privilege. Using Foucauldian discourse analysis, we distinguish five discursive repertoires employed in the statements: new facts, th…
Political science (5 works) · European history and politics (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Law (3 works) · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy (3 works) · State (computer science (2 works)