Review: Maria Dębińska, Transpłciowość w Polsce. Wytwarzanie kategorii, Wydawnictwo Instytutu Archeologii i Etnologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk, Warszawa 2020, pp. 277 Cover Image

Recenzja: Maria Dębińska, Transpłciowość w Polsce. Wytwarzanie kategorii, Wydawnictwo Instytutu Archeologii i Etnologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk, Warszawa 2020, ss. 277
Review: Maria Dębińska, Transpłciowość w Polsce. Wytwarzanie kategorii, Wydawnictwo Instytutu Archeologii i Etnologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk, Warszawa 2020, pp. 277

Author(s): Izabela Desperak
Subject(s): Anthropology, Social Sciences, Book-Review
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: transgender; anthropology of gender and sexuality; gender binary; Poland

Summary/Abstract: The review of Maria Dębińska’s Transpłciowość w Polsce. Wytwarzanie kategorii [Transgender in Poland. Producing a category] points out to the huge demand for modern academic works concerning transgender issues, letting the audience, also not-academic, to be provided with recent writings on it. It also emphasizes the need to set language standards concerning this still often misunderstood topic, and the uniqueness of the author’s approach, which focuses on the social production of the category of transgender.

  • Issue Year: 14/2022
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 198-202
  • Page Count: 5
  • Language: Polish