Guest editor's introduction

Tomasz Basiuk

5-8

Why there is no gender history in Poland?

Sylwia Kuźma-Markowska

9-18

Gender studies in Poland

prospects, limitations, challenges

Agnieszka Mrozik

19-29

Gender studies in Poland

a view from outside

Ewa Hauser

31-40

Transnational geographies of activism around lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer politics in Poland

Jon Binnie, Christian Klesse

41-49

Sexual emancipation and Seyla Benhabib's deliberative approach to conflicts in culture

Tomasz Jarymowicz

51-58

Genomic sexuality and self

the cultural conditions for the "uptake" of gay gene assertions

Rob Cover

59-76

Between silencing and ignorance

"families of choice" in Poland

Joanna Mizielińska

77-88

"Not-so-strange bedfellows"

considering queer and left alliances in Poland

Tomasz Sikora, Rafał Majka

89-100

Desire "to have" and desire "to be"

the influence of representations of the idealized masculine body on the subject and the object in male same-sex attraction

Robert Pralat

101-117

Trans-appropriations

transgendering nationness in Piotr Odmieniec Włast's "In Grabow during the war: book of idyllic poetry"

Karolina Krasuska

119-137

The death of the homosexual

on Grzegorz Musiał's late work and the limits of modernism in Poland

Błażej Warkocki, Piotr Mierzwa

139-152