Kinga Dunin

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Cecylia Dunin

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Kinga Maria Dunin-Horkawicz (born 1954 in Łódź) is a Polish writer, feminist, and sociologist.

Life

She is a columnist for the Wysokie Obcasy (women's extra of the Gazeta Wyborcza)[http://www.wysokieobcasy.pl/wysokie-obcasy/0,53665.html Kinga Dunin's column in the "Wysokie Obcasy"] and academic teacher at the Medical University of Warsaw. Before 1989 she was active in the democratic opposition (KOR and samizdat among others).[http://www.slownik-niezaleznidlakultury.pl/lodz/index.php?page=wysyp_l&sel=D&klucz=20 Noty biograficzne...] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111006025705/http://www.slownik-niezaleznidlakultury.pl/lodz/index.php?page=wysyp_l&sel=D&klucz=20 |date=2011-10-06 }} (in Polish) Member of the New Left intellectual milieu Krytyka Polityczna and of the Polish Greens 2004.[http://www.krytykapolityczna.pl/Zespol-KP/menu-id-91.html Zespół KP] (in Polish)

Books

Sociology

  • 1991: Cudze problemy. Analiza dyskursu publicznego w Polsce (Others' Problems: an Analysis of Polish Public Discourse; coauthor)
  • 2004: Czytając Polskę. Literatura polska po roku 1989 wobec dylematów nowoczesności (Reading Poland: Polish post-1989 Literature and the Dilemmas of Modernity)

Feminism

  • 1996: Tao gospodyni domowej (Tao of a Housewife)
  • 2000: Karoca z dyni (A Pumpkin Coach) - nomination for Nike Award 2001
  • 2002: Czego chcecie ode mnie, "Wysokie Obcasy"? (What do you want from me, "Wysokie Obcasy"?)
  • 2007: Zadyma (A Revolt)

Novels

  • 1998: Tabu (Taboo)
  • 1999: Obciach (Embarrassment)

References