Women’s Uprising in Poland

Bibliographic Data

ID18950904
AuthorsJennifer Ramme (0000-0002-2153-5077, European University Viadrina, corresponding author)
Year2019
Volume28
Issue1
Pages90-93
Publication date2019-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAnthropological Journal of European Cultures (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1755-2923 • E-ISSN: 1755-2931
PublisherBerghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.3167/ajec.2019.280111
OpenAlexW2951800687
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited6

In 2016 a legislative proposal introducing an abortion ban resulted in female mass mobilisations. The protests went along with frequent claims of Polish as well as European belonging. Next to this, creative appropriations of patriotic symbols related to national movements, fights and uprisings for independence and their transformation into a sign of female bodily sovereignty could be observed all over the country. The appearance of bodies needs to be looked at in relation to the concrete political context and conditions in which bodies materialise (Butler 2015). Bodies are in this sense always relational, but they also depend. The article argues that the constitution of ‘European bodies’ can serve to empower people exposed to and oppressed by nationalist biopolitics. In such cases a ‘European body’ might be constituted in distinction to the nation/nationalism and its claim of ownership on female bodies (the ‘national body’) and by performing multiple belongings extending national belonging

Biopower · Constitution · National Question · Nationalism · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Sovereignty · Eastern European Communism and Reforms · European history and politics · Gender Studies · History · Law · Populism, Right-Wing Movements

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