About the Author

Ewelina Woźniak-Wrzesińska

E-Mail: Ewelina.Wozniak-Wrzesinska@geschichte.uni-giessen.de

In 2023, Ewelina Woźniak-Wrzesińska was a scholarship holder at the German Poland Institute in Darmstadt (Project: The Stereotype of Germans in Polish Gender Discourse). Since October 2023, she has been Associate Researcher at the Institute for Eastern European History at Justus Liebig University Giessen. From 2019 to 2021, she led the Polish-Slovak project Contemporary Polish Culture in Phraseology. She earned her PhD in Linguistics in 2021 (defending her thesis with distinction), which looks at the “Two Faces of the Humanities—Dispersion and Coherence, Terms and Concepts.” Previously, she studied Interfaculty Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Łódź and Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań.

Contributions by Author: Ewelina Woźniak-Wrzesińska

Issue 18
anti-German sentiment
frame transformations
sociopolitical polarization
anti-gender rhetoric

Media Framing and Stereotype Transformation

Analyzing Polish Gender Discourse and Anti-German Sentiments (2015–2023)

This _Article examines the complex processes of framing within anti-gender discourse, particularly focusing on how anti-German stereotypes are reinterpreted within the Polish political landscape. The study explores how these deeply rooted stereotypes are transformed to fit into influential and emergent frames within anti-gender movements. In this paper, anti-gender is used as an umbrella term encompassing opposition to LGBTQ+ rights, acknowledging that LGBTQ+ issues are…