Editorial: Gender Perspective in Social Research: Chosen Problems, Aspects, and Contexts

Emilia Garncarek

doi:10.18778/1733-8069.16.1.01

Authors

Emilia Garncarek University of Lodz https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9685-0741

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18778/1733-8069.16.1.01

Keywords:

masculinity, femininity, gender, transgender, Polish media, women’s sports, motherhood, historical politics, herstory, qualitative research, discourse

Abstract

This volume Society and Gender: Contemporary Issues and Research Perspectives, is a reflection of dynamically developing gender studies in the Polish social sciences. The first part of the introduction shows that gender/gender perspective has become one of the basic and essential cognitive category to understand the social world at its various levels, has also universal and widespread structural and stratification meaning. The second part of the introduction presents six articles that show all the richness and complexity of gender perspective in social research. The contributions are devoted to the issues connected with the media images of masculinity; the critical reflection on contemporary Polish television series, in particular the ways they tackle narratives that include instances of violence against women; the under-representation of media coverages of women’s sports; experiences of infertility and the social expectations towards women until they receive a diagnosis of infertility; medical views on transgender and their influence on self-perception among trans people; and the process of gendering memory as a counterpoint to the politicization of memory. The diversity of contents presented within individual texts illustrates how multi-faceted the considerations of gender issues are.

Author Biography

Emilia Garncarek, University of Lodz

Emilia Garncarek is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Sociology of Structures and Social Changes,
Institute of Sociology, University of Lodz. She is a sociologist and her research interests include: gender studies,
alternative forms of modern family, voluntary childlessness, transformations of motherhood in the contemporary world, issues connected with regretting motherhood.

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