„Kobietą jestem - i tylko... kobietą chcę zostać do zgonu”. Wokół szkicu Gabrieli Zapolskiej „W sprawie emancypacji”
“Kobietą jestem - i tylko... Kobietą chcę zostać do zgonu [I am a woman and I only... Want to remain a woman until my death]” on Gabriela Zapolska’s “w sprawie emancypacji” (“about emancipation”)

Summary/Abstract: The key issue discussed in the paper is a controversial significance of Gabriela Zapolska’s journalistic sketch W sprawie emancypacji (About Emancipation), composed as a reaction to a medicine doctor Karolina Szulcówna’s doctoral dissertation defended in the Sorbonne. In the text, Zapolska formulated her life credo: “Kobietą jestem—i tylko... kobietą chcę zostać do zgonu [I am a woman and I only... want to remain a woman until my death],” convincing the readers of “Kurier Warszawski” (“Warsaw Courier”) to believe into invariability of biologically, religiously and culturally sanctioned principles that govern the sex-dependent roles. Glorifying males and approving their superiority over females, she places women within family circle and deprives them of the possibility of higher education as well as of any importance outside family sphere. Zapolska’s sketch, to this day commented several times, is here subject of yet another interpretation equipped with new contexts.

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