Kinga Dunin is a Polish writer, feminist, and sociologist. She is a columnist

Columnist

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 for the Wysokie Obcasy (women's extra of the Gazeta Wyborcza

Gazeta Wyborcza

Gazeta Wyborcza is a leading Polish newspaper. It covers the gamut of political, international and general news. Like all the Polish newspapers, it is printed on compact-sized paper, and is published by the multimedia corporation Agora SA...

) and academic teacher at the Medical University of Warsaw

Medical University of Warsaw

The Medical University of Warsaw was founded in January 1950, building on the University of Warsaw's former Faculty of Medicine, which had been established in the early nineteenth century...

. Before 1989 she was active in the democratic opposition (KOR

Committee for Social Self-defence KOR

Committee for Social Self-defence KOR was a Polish civil society group that emerged under communist rule. It was created in 1977 from the Workers' Defence Committee . It was one of the movements whose activities led to the creation of Solidarity...

 and samizdat

Samizdat

Samizdat was a key form of dissident activity across the Soviet bloc in which individuals reproduced censored publications by hand and passed the documents from reader to reader...

 among others). Member of the New Left intellectual milieu Krytyka Polityczna and of the Polish Greens 2004.

Books

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
  Nike Award
  The NIKE Literary Award is one of the most prestigious awards for Polish literature. Established in 1997 and funded by Gazeta Wyborcza, Poland's second largest daily paper, and the consulting company NICOM, it is conferred annually in October for the best book of a single living author writing in...
  
  2001
• 2002: Czego chcecie ode mnie, "Wysokie Obcasy"? (What do you want from me, "Wysokie Obcasy"?)
• 2007: Zadyma (A Revolt)

Novels

• 1998: Tabu (Taboo)
• 1999: Obciach (Shame)