Agnieszka KośCiańSka - Gender, Pleasure, and Violence: The Construction of Expert Knowledge of Sexuality in Poland

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NEW ANTHROPOLOGIES OF EUROPE

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I would like to sincerely thank everyone who made writing this book possible. This research was supported by a Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellowship within the Seventh European Community Framework Programme. I am particularly grateful to Magdalena Zowczak at the University of Warsaw and Michael Herzfeld at Harvard University for taking me and my project under their wings. I appreciate the helpful comments of the books official and unofficial reviewers: Anna Wieczorkiewicz, Tomasz Wilicz, Maria Dbiska, Magdalena Grabowska, Dorota Hall, and Magdalena Radkowska-Walkowicz. Special thanks go to Monika Patek for her expertise and help with the legal elements in my research. I also thank the participants of the panel, The Science of Sex in a Space of Uncertainty: Naturalizing and Modernizing Europes East, Past and Present, which took place as part of the European Association of Social Anthropologists conference in Paris in July 2012Agata Ignaciuk, Kristen Ghodsee, Agnieszka Weseli, Katarzyna Staczak-Wilicz, and Hadley Renkinfor the productive discussion about my presentation, in which I forwarded this books main theses. Gratitude is also owed to all those who took part in other presentations of my research findings. I thank my colleagues and the students at the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Warsaw for their insight and interesting questions. I thank Dorota Badzian, Agata Chestowska, and Agnieszka Leszczyska for their help in collecting data. I am grateful to Micha Buchowski, Danuta Duch, Anika Keinz, Ewa Klekot, Grayna Kubica, Katarzyna Leszczyska, Elbieta Matynia, Lidia Ostaowska, Kateina Likov, Jill Owczarzak, Judith Okely, Frances Pine, Magorzata Rajtar, Ann Snitow, Grzegorz Sok, Karolina Szmagalska-Follis, and Carole Vance for inspiring conversations about my project and for their support and encouragement.

Special thanks go to all those who agreed to be interviewed and who served as my guides to the world of Polish expert knowledge of sexuality.

Finally, I would like to thank my friends and family for their faith in my capabilities. I thank Micha Petryk for his support, inspiration, and love.

The English-language version of this book would not have been possible were it not for the sympathy and determination of the editors of the New Anthropologies of Europe series, in particular Michael Herzfeld, on whose support and friendship I could count at all stages of my project. Heartfelt thanks go to Marta Rozmysowicz for the effort she put into translating this book. I am also grateful to Jennika Baines of Indiana University Press for watching over the publishing process and to the directors of the University of Warsaw Press, Anna Szemberg and Beata Jankowiak-Konik, for their kindness during subsequent stages of this project. Many thanks to Agnieszka and Fredek Dzwonkowski for their hospitality and friendship, which allowed me to complete my work on the English version.

Small portions of this book were published earlier in the following articles of my authorship:

Gender on Trial: Changes in Legal and Discursive Practices Concerning Sexual Violence in Poland from the 1970s to the Present, Ethnologia Europaea2020, 50 (1): 111127.

Sex on Equal Terms? Polish Sexology on Womens Emancipation and Good Sex from the 1970s to the Present. Sexualities2016, 12:23656.

Feminist and Queer Sex Therapy: The Ethnography of Expert Knowledge of Sexuality in Poland. In Rethinking Ethnography in Central Europe