Socrealizm albo milczenie kobiet
Socialist Realism, Or, Silence of Females

Summary/Abstract: Review: Ewa Toniak, Olbrzymki. Kobiety i socrealizm [‘The Giantesses. Woman and Socialist Realism’], Korporacja Ha!art, Krakow 2008. The book by Ewa Toniak deals with Polish art of the socialist realism period, read as implementation of a classical patriarchal discourse. The scholar thus writes on Polish soc-realism from a perspective that enables to reach for the male/female opposition, showing that there is violence, aggression and objectification hiding underneath a façade of equality. In communism, the ‘female question’ is posed and then resolved by males. Ms. Toniak includes in her book a very interesting thread of consideration which might be called a story of women’s revenges, of how and in what ways the male and imperious discourse of the communism epoch is getting unmasked, disarmed, discredited and parodied in the Polish female art.

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