Ludwik Krzywicki i kobiety

Abstract

The article analyses sociological and anthropological legacy, recollective materials and educational activity of Ludwik Krzywicki (1859–1941). Its aim is to compare his concept of femininity and attitude to women, both inscribed in the three areas of his intellectual activity. In his sociological works which deal with gender relations, femininity appears in two forms: of an accepted proletarian, who understands the mechanism of inevitable social revolution leading automatically to gender equality, and of an aversion towards a middle–class woman, trying to influence the historical process through the emancipation movement. In his anthropological works, womanhood is described as an anarchic phenomenon coming into play in the breakthrough for primitive communities’ moments of political changes. In his recollective materials the attention of the speaking subject is drawn particularly to the women of incoherent character and intellectually dependant who exemplify caricatural version of emancipation. Finally, in Krzywicki’s educational and social activity the issue of support for the educational initiatives taken by female representatives of the emancipation movement in the Kingdom of Poland is present.

Keywords

• historia socjologii polskiej
• biografia
• twórczość naukowa i działalność społeczna Ludwika Krzywickiego
• literatura dokumentu osobistego