Medialny obraz (nie)obecnoœci kobiet w sferze publicznej - analiza relacji prasowych poświęconych tak zwanej seksaferze w Samoobronie RP
Media Image of Women's (Non)Existence in the Public Sphere. Analysis of Press Accounts of the "Sex Scandal" in Samoobrona RP

Summary/Abstract: I attempt to analyse the discourse on the place and role of women in the publicsphere, as revealed by media accounts of the so-called "sex-scandal" in SamoobronaRP. I have tried to show how the problem of women accidentally present in the public sphere, reiterated by the media, makes itself manifest in reports and comments about the scandal. According to J. Turowski (1992: 13) "by the term «public» many authors understand not only the common good, but also actions leading to its achievement, and the public's participation in these actions. They write about «the public sphere», while describing the functioning of large social groups, the state, the global society". In some approaches, like R. Senett's, "the public sphere" really means "political life in a given society, i.e. outside family social structures" (Turowski 1992:13). For Habermas "the public" is situated "between civil society and the state, where critical public discussion concerning questions of general interest is guaranteed" (McCarthy 1999: xi, Habermas, 2008:98). Multiplicity of public discussions is related to the notion of democracy as "a modus of historical awareness, openness to discourse, multiperspectivity, pluralism and recognition of recipients and their aims" (Ziółkowski 2001: 84).

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