page_title: Irena Krzywicka
section_title: Feminist activities
hierarchical_section_title: Irena Krzywicka / Biography / Feminist activities
caption_attribution_description: Polski: Portret Ireny Krzywickiej, pastel na papierze, 64 x 48 cm, Muzeum Pomorza Środkowego, Słupsk
context_page_description: Irena Krzywicka née Goldberg, 28 May 1899 in Yeniseysk, Russian Empire – 12 July 1994 in Bures-sur-Yvette, France, was a Polish feminist, writer, translator and activist for women's rights, who promoted sexual education, contraception and planned parenthood.
context_section_description: Krzywicka was an author of several novels and translated works of H. G. Wells, Max Frisch, and Friedrich Dürrenmatt. Meeting Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński turned out to be a crucial moment in her life. They fell in love and became lovers. Krzywicka's work on spreading the knowledge about sexual education and birth control made her the most famous feminist of pre-war Poland. She was considered a scandalist as she talked about abortion, women's sexuality and homosexuality.
  Krzywicka and Boy-Żeleński opened a clinic in Warsaw which gave information, free of charge, about planned parenthood. 
  She was attacked by right-wing activists, who claimed that Krzywicka was "harming the nation", and by liberal writers, such as Jan Lechoń, Maria Dąbrowska and Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz, who objected to the predominance of sexual themes in her works.
caption: Irena Krzywicka by Witkacy, 1928
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