Feminizm zwykłych kobiet? O próbach zwrotu ku lewicowemu populizmowi we współczesnym feminizmie w Polsce
Feminism of ordinary women? Attempts at the turn towards left populism in contemporary feminism in Poland

Summary/Abstract: The article comprises a diagnosis and analysis of a discursive change in Polish feminism, which demonstrates many characteristics of a turn towards left populism and is interpreted as a local (al- beit consistent with a global trend) strategy of resistance against illiberal anti-feminist populism. It juxtaposes three texts by feminist authors, published between first Black Protests, initiated in 2016 against plans of an abortion ban in Poland and the Women’s Strikes launched in 2020 in reaction to a ruling of the Constitutional Tribunal which actually tightened the already restrictive abortion law. All of them call for a change in the Polish feminist movement: arrival of a “feminism of ordinary women” or fourth wave feminism. The issue of whether such discursive gestures help to construct a powerful pluralist subject of left and feminist populism or rather serve to discipline and exclude other voices and approaches within feminist debate is explored in depth in the course of the analy- sis. Finally some risks that the implementation of a populist “feminism of ordinary women” might involve are unmasked and the ways in which it transforms the feminist imagery and sets the horizon for the future which is worth fighting for are being pointed to.

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