Kinga Dunin Explained

Kinga Dunin
Birth Date:	25 April 1954
Nationality:	Polish
Alma Mater:	University of Łódź
Occupation:	writer, feminist, sociologist

Party:	Greens 2004
Parents:	Janusz Dunin Cecylia Dunin

Kinga Maria Dunin-Horkawicz (born 1954 in Łódź) is a Polish writer, feminist, and sociologist.

Life

She is a columnist for the Wysokie Obcasy (women's extra of the Gazeta Wyborcza)^[1] and academic teacher at the Medical University of Warsaw. Before 1989 she was active in the democratic opposition (KOR and samizdat among others).^[2] Member of the New Left intellectual milieu Krytyka Polityczna and of the Polish Greens 2004.^[3]

Sociology

1991: Cudze problemy. Analiza dyskursu publicznego w Polsce (Others' Problems: an Analysis of Polish Public Discourse; coauthor)
2004: Czytając Polskę. Literatura polska po roku 1989 wobec dylematów nowoczesności (Reading Poland: Polish post-1989 Literature and the Dilemmas of Modernity)

Feminism

1996: Tao gospodyni domowej (Tao of a Housewife)
2000: Karoca z dyni (A Pumpkin Coach) - nomination for Nike Award 2001
2002: Czego chcecie ode mnie, "Wysokie Obcasy"? (What do you want from me, "Wysokie Obcasy"?)
2007: Zadyma (A Revolt)

Novels