In 2016 a legislative proposal introducing an abortion ban resulted in female mass mobilisations. The protests went along with frequent claims of Polish as well as European belonging. Next to this, creative appropriations of patriotic symbols related to national movements, fights and uprisings for independence and their transformation into a sign of female bodily sovereignty could be observed all over the country. The appearance of bodies needs to be looked at in relation to the concrete political context and conditions in which bodies materialise (Butler 2015). Bodies are in this sense always relational, but they also depend. The article argues that the constitution of ‘European bodies’ can serve to empower people exposed to and oppressed by nationalist biopolitics. In such cases a ‘European body’ might be constituted in distinction to the nation/nationalism and its claim of ownership on female bodies (the ‘national body’) and by performing multiple belongings extending national belonging.

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波兰妇女起义

2016 年，一项引入堕胎禁令的立法提案引发了女性大规模动员。抗议活动伴随着波兰和欧洲归属的频繁要求。除此之外，与民族运动、争取独立的斗争和起义有关的爱国符号的创造性挪用，以及将它们转变为女性身体主权的标志，在全国各地都可以观察到。需要根据具体的政治背景和身体具体化的条件来看待身体的出现（Butler 2015）。身体在这个意义上总是相关的，但它们也依赖。文章认为，“欧洲机构”的组成可以赋予那些暴露于民族主义生命政治并受其压迫的人们。