Seksowny faszyzm jako egzemplifikacja relacji płci i władzy
Sexy Fascism Exemplifying the Relationship Between Sex and Power

Summary/Abstract: This article discusses the sexiness of fascism as a phenomenon exemplifying the relationship between sex and power. Rawski’s approach to fascism, inspired by Susan Sontag’s well-known essay Fascinating Fascism, spans not only the fields of literary and cultural studies, but also psychology, history and anthropology. By analysing selected cultural texts (novels and films) alongside historical sources that feature the image of the “beautiful Nazi,” Rawski confirms Michel Foucault’s theses about beauty and the relationship between power and sexuality. In the context of the Nazi criminals who were – and still are – perceived as unequivocally erotic objects, beauty appears as a sublimated tool of power over another person.

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