Ciało kobiety. Notatki z lektury: O czym się nawet myśleć nie chce Gabrieli Zapolskiej
Woman’s body. Notes on a study of: O czym się nawet myśleć nie chce Gabrieli Zapolskie

Summary/Abstract: The following article presents the novel O czym się nawet myśleć nie chce, written by a Polish naturalist, Gabriela Zapolska, in which the author challenges the nineteenth-century taboos on sexual life, prostitution and biological aspects of motherhood (pregnancy and childbirth). The novel was a significant voice of the first Polish feminist generation fighting for women’s rights. In the book, Zapolska expressed her feminist views of the roles of women and men in the family. Moreover, she analyzed the issue of female fertility and presented childbirth as an empowering experience, which strengthens feminine identity of the mother. Feminist notions of the novel were not only very progressive in the nineteenth century, but also made Zapolska a forerunner of contemporary neofeminism (new feminism).

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