Agnieszka Graff

Agnieszka Graff

Agnieszka Graff (born October 1 1970), is a Polish writer, translator, publicist, feminist and women's and human rights activist. She graduated from Oxford University, Amherst College (Virginia, 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 centre-left newspaper), "Literatura na Świecie" (magazine on world literature) and "Zadra" (feminist magazine).

She is a co-founder of women's organisation Porozumienie Kobiet 8 Marca (8th March Women 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.

Bibliography

* "Świat bez kobiet. Płeć w polskim życiu publicznym." ("World without women: gender in Polish public life") published in Warsaw in 2001

See also

* [http://polishpress.wordpress.com/2007/03/13/women-sacrificed-on-the-altar: Interview with Agnieszka Graff entitled "Women sacrificed on the altar of the Holy Mary]


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