Integralność, samodzielność i celibat
Integrity, independence and celibacy

Summary/Abstract: Feminist discourse has developed several strategies for opposing the ideas of pronatalism imposed by family-friendly policies, popular culture and religious dogma. The article examines examples of feminist prose and calls from within the women’s movement advocating political celibacy, and thereby challenging the social consensus on motherhood as the overriding aim of women’s lives. Speeches by feminists focus on analyzing the situation of poverty-stricken, financially dependent women, for whom children are a burden that limit their already limited opportunities to realize their ambitions in life. The authors of these feminist texts draw attention to the real mental, physical and financial costs of childcare, as well as the alienation experienced by mothers who devote themselves to their children. All this leads to the fact that the icon of the feminist movement cannot be the mother, who is focused on the private sphere and places the interests of her own children over solidarity with other women.

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