As for the main rationale behind the study, it is to analyse sexual violence in Poland by juxtaposing cultural, political and legal discourses, with a particular focus on the change in the scope of the criminalisation of the offence of rape in 2025, and its relevance for the understanding of the victim's sexual autonomy, consent and subjectivity from the perspective of the post-Foucauldian 'apparatus of sexuality' and the dogmatic interpretation of criminal law.
Cultural, Political, and Legal Discourse on Sexual Violence against Women in Poland. A Study Based on the Example of the Offence of Rape
