title: Polish queer lesbianism: sexual identity without a lesbian community.
abstract: The article investigates the state of Polish lesbianism. It presents the history of lesbian groups, lesbian culture, and community in Poland. It puts social and political activism of lesbians in the context of the growing feminist movement and strong nationalism in Poland. Showing the important role of the Internet communication and the way in which queer philosophy is understood in this country, it investigates sexual identity formation and the process through which lesbian communities develop in Poland. The analysis of Polish lesbianism confirms the constructionists' theory that sexual identity formation highly depends on cultural and political circumstances.
authors.affiliation: Graduate School for Social Research, Warsaw, Poland. alicja.kowalska@gmail.com
authors.forename: Alicja
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kowalska
mesh_terms: D003469:Culture; D005260:Female; D018452:Homosexuality, Female; D006801:Humans; D011044:Poland; D012111:Residence Characteristics; D012649:Self Concept; D012931:Social Environment; D012933:Social Identification