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Looking at practices of Polish lesbian artists, this book theorises queer women’s presence in Polish art at intersections with archives, history, literature, and affect across time, and proposes le...
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29 September 2026
Is there a Polish lesbian and who is she? Engaging with this central question, this volume examines contemporary Polish lesbian artistic practices and reaches out across history and archives to establish possibility of mutual intelligibility for Polish lesbians. Through the lens of contemporary art, it weaves an intricate story of the search for a Polish lesbian through narratives of Polish national identity, folklore, archives, literature, spirituality, sex and sexology, and transgressive domesticities in post-Soviet space. In the virtual absence of materials, documents, and shared history of Polish lesbianism, this volume develops desiring methodologies, transhistorical narratives, and intergenerational conversations, to ask who a Polish lesbian might be and where to find her. Ambitious in scope and breadth of material, it engages closely with the US lesbian studies as well as decolonial and sexuality studies from Central and Eastern Europe, challenging the centre/periphery model for reading sexuality and lesbian theories.
Price: £85.00
Pages: 272
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Series: Rethinking Art's Histories
Publication Date:
29 September 2026
ISBN: 9781526184993
Format: Hardcover
BISACs:
ART / LGBTQ+ Artists, History of art, ART / Women Artists, HISTORY / Europe / Poland, Performance art, Installation art, LGBTQ+ Studies / topics
Aleksandra Gajowy is Assistant Professor in Modern and Contemporary Art at University College Dublin
Introduction: Theorising the search for the Polish lesbian
1 The Madonnas: Marian-Sapphic readings of Matka Boska Czestochowska
2 The Heathens: Desiring lesbian connections across history
3 The Peasants: Queer time and erotic CEE belatedness
4 The ‘Flatmates:’ Lesbians beyond permissibility in the postsocialist landscape
5 The Lovers: Lesbian sex in Poland and Western bodies of theory
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