TY - JOUR AU - Steppa, Hanna PY - 2014/01/01 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Seksualny kapitał w wersji publicznej JF - Poznańskie Studia Polonistyczne. Seria Literacka JA - 10.14746/pspsl VL - IS - 24 SE - Lektury DO - UR - https://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/pspsl/article/view/1217 SP - 369-374 AB - <p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The main intention of Samuel Nowak—the author of </span><em><span style="font-size: medium;">Sexual Capital</span></em><span style="font-size: medium;">—is to define “what the mass media are for men labelling themselves as gay, taking into account various, although always treated collectively, contexts: economic, political and medial”(p. 9). The sub-title of the study, which defines the direction of the whole text, is </span><em><span style="font-size: medium;">Wyobrażone wspólnoty</span></em><em><span style="font-size: medium;">smaku i medialne tożsamości polskich gejów </span></em><span style="font-size: medium;">(“Imagined Communities of Taste and Medial Identities of Polish Gay Persons”). In the Nowak’s study, important is the evaluation from outside (as viewed by science) and from within (as viewed by proponents of LGBT). The critical review of </span><em><span style="font-size: medium;">Sexual Capital </span></em><span style="font-size: medium;">is compatible with the structure of the original text: originally focuses on scientific theories in order to end with the examples </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;">from Polish medial realities.</span></p> ER -