Kategoria żeńskości / inności w twórczości Lidii Ginzburg

Abstract

This article is the attempt at reading Liydia Ginzburg’s artistic works from the angle of feminist and gender studies. On the surface, Ginzburg’s prose is far from such perspective. The writer avoids female forms, instead of words “woman, woman of letters” she uses “human” (Russian: человек), what is reflected as much as in titles: Записки блокадного человека, Человек за письменным столом. However, closer look into those works proves that Liydia Ginzburg had her own opinion not only on such matters as the meaning of woman in traditional society, imposing on both genders the roles molded by social and cultural norms, homosexuality, but also she manifested it. Her inquisitive analysis and fights against stereotypes and for “otherness” sound extremely modern, despite the fact that some of her works were written in 1920s.