Mind the GapItaly, 4-14.08.13

Polish point of viewOn the gender topic

Part 1Gender & Media

Magdalena Szubstarska

Media discourse on masculinity crisis in

Poland

1. Family roles

2. Relationship roles

3. Emotions

4. Apperance

Main areas

Media discourse on masculinity crisis in

Poland

Crisis seen as an opportunity for change and a step towards equality

Crisis seen as an oppression and dangerous confusion

„we, men, all suffer

nowadays”

‚of course women are equal’’

‚since they have their careers, are even

stronger than men!’

‚men are opressed by strong evil women’

‚men are confused, because women don’t know what they want’

‚but we all know that submissivness is in women’s blood’

‚we have some experts to prove it’

Patriarchy is safe and sound

News

AnchorMan (55%) Men preparing materials (55%), esp.

Politics (70%) Women preparing materials on Social

Issues (70%) Men as experts (80%) Men speaking in general (75%) Male politicians (90%)

Prime time talk show

Hosted by a man Talking with other men (90%)

Radio

Men preparing (75%) and hosting (70%) programms

Materials prepared by men (up to 90%), with exception of Social Issues (by women, 55%)

Experts – men (55% Social Issues, up to 95% in Politics)

Newspapers and magazines

Led both by men and women Articles written by men (60-70%)

2012

24% MPs

11% politicians appearing in the media

19% experts

Language troublesFemile suffix in Polish

1. (politician) Polityk pani polityk polityczka

2. (psychologist) Psycholog pani psycholog psycholożka

3. (professor) Profesor pani profesor profesorka? profesora?

4. (dean) Dziekan pani dziekan dziekanka dziekana? dziekanini?

Part 2The great national

myths are gender-marked

Emilia Jasiek

Kozak i dziewczyna Józef Brandt 1875 Oil on canvas. 51 x 99 cm

Muzeum Narodowe w Kielcach

Litewska sanna Alfred Wierusz Kowalski 1884 Oil on canvas. 73 x 119 cm

Private property

Pożegnanie Artur Grottger (1837–1867)   

Oil on canvas, 52,7 × 41,3 cmMuzeum Narodowe w Krakowie

Kościuszko ratujący Polskę przed grobem Franciszek Smuglewicz 1797Oil on canvas , 104 × 118.5 cm (40.9 × 46.7 in)

Rok 1863 - Polonia , Jan Matejko 1864oil on canvas. 156 x 232 cm

Muzeum Narodowe w Krakowie, zbiory Czartoryskich

Finis Poloniae, Jacek Malczewski 1906Oil on canvas. 78 x 132 cm

private property

Part 3Stereotypes of masculinity and

femininity in contemporary Poland

Bartosz Prokopyk