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Preface
Masculinity,likefemininity,hasalwaysfascinatedlaymenaswellasscho-
lars.Themulti-dimensionalcharacteroftheconceptmakesuswillingtoinvesti-
gateitsnature.Thefactthatmasculinity,likefemininity,hasagreatimpacton
theindividual’slife,psyche,socialrelationsandevenlanguage,makesitafocus
ofinterestforscholarsrepresentingmanyacademicdisciplines.
Thebookisagoodillustrationoftheabove.Itisacollectionofpapersthat
haveacommontopic-masculinity,dealtwithinvariouswaysandlookedat
fromdifferentperspectives.Inthefirstpaper,JolantaKlimczakandKazimiera
Wódzanalysechangesofmasculinityobservedinworking-classcommunitiesin
selectedcultures(Polishcultureincluded).Thestudyrepresentsasociological
perspective.
Nexttwopapers,writtenfromapsychologicalperspective,dealwithgender-
relatedproblems.TomaszJakubowskipresentsacasestudyofde-transition
(areturntoone’sgenderassignedatbirth).MajaGwóźdźwritesaboutthe
so-calledthwartedmasculinity,analysinghowintersexualityisrepresentedin
literarydiscourse(JeffreyEugenides’snovelMiddlesex).
Todrawalinguisticpictureofmenandmasculinityistheaimofthefol-
lowingtwopapers.MarcinKuczokcarriesoutacontrastivestudyoflingui-
sticrepresentationsofmenandmasculinityinPolishandEnglishproverbs.My
paperisacriticalanalysisofPolishpoliticaldiscourse(producedbymalepoliti-
cians).Next,inthetextbyWojciechWachowskiandAlicjaSzmaus-Jackowska,
differencesinexpressingtaboocontentbetweenmenandwomenareinvestiga-
tedwithintheframeworkofthecognitivetheoryofmetaphor.
Thesubsequenttwopaperstrytopresentapictureofmasculinityexisting
inPolishwriting.Analysingpress,ethnographic,historicalandliterarysources,
AnnaHanusiakdrawsapictureoftheKarpatianhighlanderrobber.JanMusiał
presentsaliterarystudyofmasculinityaccordingtothehistorianandliterary
critic-StefanKołaczkowski.
