Dzień Kobiet w Doświadczeniach Kobiet i Mężczyzn

The author describes the results of empirical research (in the years 2005-2009) into the process of constructing the meaning ofWomen’s Day in various generational groups of men and women. The ‘communist contamination’ of the 8th of March holiday turns out to be particularly important in terms of meaning. The groups studied have made, in this context, a new ‘localisation’ of the holiday in the sphere of their own experiences. Women’s Day appears as a phenomenon entangled in the discourses of adoration and emancipation, as well as in the settling of accounts with the Polish People’s Republic and feminism.