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Nowy feminizm – teoria i praktyka
New feminism – theory and practice

Author(s): Natalia Klejdysz
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza
Keywords: social teaching of the Catholic Church; feminism; new feminism; woman; equal rights of men and women

Summary/Abstract: The author of the paper focuses on the discrepancies between the new feminism and the practice of the institutional Church. New feminism is approached here as an inherent part of the contemporary social teaching of the Catholic Church. Its practice is analyzed on the examples of statements uttered by Church officials as concerns the role of women in the Church, and the concrete activities and decisions of the institutional Church. The author seeks the reasons for these discrepancies in tradition, on the one hand, and on the other, in the fear of losing power.

  • Issue Year: 2014
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 183-193
  • Page Count: 11