„Pokazać, że jesteś kobietą”. Konflikty o wygląd partnerki w małżeństwach polsko-rosyjskich
“Show that You Are a Woman”. Conflicts Connected with a Female-Partner’s Appearance in Polish-Russian Marriages

Summary/Abstract: Partners in Polish-Russian couples have different opinions concerning women’s appearence.Stressing femininity and paying much attention to attractiveness of a female-partner seems to bevery important to Russian partners of both sexes. In this paper, this phenomenon is analyzed fromtwo perspectives. The gender perspective pays special attention to the diversities in the evolutionof partiarchal model in Poland and Russia. The analysis from the perspective of cultural anthropologyleads to the conclusion about manifestation of Russian identity in Polish-Russian relations.Concidering “femininity” an important category and laying a metaphysical emphasis on it seemsto be one of the ways of the “being Russian” manifestation.

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