Rasa, klasa, płeć i wieś. Feministyczne epistemologie marginesu
Race, Class, Gender and Countryside. Feminist Epistemologies of the Margin

Summary/Abstract: In my article I am trying to explore ways in which Polish feminism can expand its knowledge about woman living in the countryside. To this purpose I recall theories from black feminist thought and postcolonial studies which help to enrich subaltern epistemologies. To renegotiate regimes of visibility, which limit our imagination, I use these theories to analyze pop culture representations of rurality (documentary Warszawa do wzięcia and docusoap Chłopaki do wzięcia). Referring to bell hooks’ theory of the margin and to postcolonial writings of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and Donna Haraway’s concept of situated knowledges, which all help to develop our knowledge about different kinds of oppression and their intersectionality, I want to draw attention to these dimensions of sexism which don’t fit into rigid categories of “problems faced by woman from big cities”.

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