Agnieszka Graff
Agnieszka Graff, is a Polish writer, translator, commentator, feminist and women's and human rights activist. She studied in Oxford University, Amherst College, and graduated from 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. 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", "Literatura na Świecie" and "Zadra".
She is a co-founder of women's organisation Porozumienie Kobiet 8 Marca, 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.
Agnieszka Graff herself is Jewish.Selected works
- Świat bez kobiet. Płeć w polskim życiu publicznym.. Warsaw 2001.
- Rykoszetem. Rzecz o płci, seksualności i narodzie.. Warsaw 2008.
- Magma i inne próby zrozumienia, o co tu chodzi.. Warsaw 2010.