Agnieszka Graff
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Agnieszka Graff is a Polish
writer, translator, commentator, feminist and women's and human rights activist. She graduated from Oxford University, Amherst College
(Massachusetts
, U.S.
), and School of Social Sciences at Polish Academy of Sciences
. She completed her PhD in English literature
in 1999. In 2001 she published World without women, a book that was hugely debated in Poland. She works at the Warsaw University's Institute of the Americas and Europe, and gives lectures on gender studies
.
Her essays and features were published in "Gazeta Wyborcza
" (mass circulation left-wing newspaper), "Literatura na Świecie
" ("World Literature") and "Zadra" ("The Thorn", feminist magazine).
She is a co-founder of women's organisation Porozumienie Kobiet 8 Marca (8 March Women's Coalition), with which she organises the annual Manifa Warsaw women's march. Graff is a member of the Precedent Cases Programme's Programme Board at the International Helsinki Federation For Human Rights
. She is married to photographer Bernard Osser.
Poland
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writer, translator, commentator, feminist and women's and human rights activist. She graduated from Oxford University, Amherst College
Amherst College
Amherst College is a private liberal arts college located in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States. Amherst is an exclusively undergraduate four-year institution and enrolled 1,744 students in the fall of 2009...
(Massachusetts
Massachusetts
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. It is bordered by Rhode Island and Connecticut to the south, New York to the west, and Vermont and New Hampshire to the north; at its east lies the Atlantic Ocean. As of the 2010...
, U.S.
United States
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), and School of Social Sciences at Polish Academy of Sciences
Polish Academy of Sciences
The Polish Academy of Sciences, headquartered in Warsaw, is one of two Polish institutions having the nature of an academy of sciences.-History:...
. She completed her PhD in English literature
English literature
English literature is the literature written in the English language, including literature composed in English by writers not necessarily from England; for example, Robert Burns was Scottish, James Joyce was Irish, Joseph Conrad was Polish, Dylan Thomas was Welsh, Edgar Allan Poe was American, J....
in 1999. In 2001 she published World without women, a book that was hugely debated in Poland. She works at the Warsaw University's Institute of the Americas and Europe, and gives lectures on gender studies
Gender studies
Gender studies is a field of interdisciplinary study which analyses race, ethnicity, sexuality and location.Gender study has many different forms. One view exposed by the philosopher Simone de Beauvoir said: "One is not born a woman, one becomes one"...
.
Her essays and features were published in "Gazeta Wyborcza
Gazeta Wyborcza
Gazeta Wyborcza is a leading Polish newspaper. It covers the gamut of political, international and general news. Like all the Polish newspapers, it is printed on compact-sized paper, and is published by the multimedia corporation Agora SA...
" (mass circulation left-wing newspaper), "Literatura na Świecie
Literatura na Swiecie
Literatura na Świecie was, during the times of the Polish People's Republic, one of the most widely read and sought after periodicals in Poland...
" ("World Literature") and "Zadra" ("The Thorn", feminist magazine).
She is a co-founder of women's organisation Porozumienie Kobiet 8 Marca (8 March Women's Coalition), with which she organises the annual Manifa Warsaw women's march. Graff is a member of the Precedent Cases Programme's Programme Board at the International Helsinki Federation For Human Rights
International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights
The International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights was a self-governing group of non-governmental, not-for-profit organizations that act to protect human rights throughout Europe, North America and Central Asia...
. She is married to photographer Bernard Osser.