Kazimierz Rzepecki – idealista i mąż nieidealny Izabeli Moszczeńskiej
Kazimierz Rzepecki, an idealist and not an ideal man of Izabela Moszczeńska

Summary/Abstract: The history of Izabela Rzepecka’s, nee Moszczeńska’s (1864–1941, a Polish publicist, an educational, political, and emancipatory activist), marriage with Kazimierz Rzepecki (1866–1902, a publicist, and a social activist) illustrates the process of transformation of a patriarchal, noble, or bourgeois model of a family into a family, which, at the turn of the nineteenth and the twentieth century, was set on the grounds of partnership. Under the new, democratic model of a family, followed more willingly by left-wing intellectuals, the traditional gender roles of men and women have been redefined by, for example, the fact that the popularization of women’s professional activity was accompanied by the process of warming up of a man’s emotional image. However, as it is apparent from the memories of Moszczeńska, the transformation of a traditional standard of femininity into a modern model of a suffragist took less dramatic course than a crisis of masculinity.

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