Discursive construction of the perception of gender identity: The case of tenants and owners in re-privatization/property restitution in Warsaw

The article examines how the perception of gender identities tenants and owners was constructed in normalizing discourses regarding re-privatization/property restitution Warsaw 2004-2016. As a theoretical approach, it applies feminist post-structuralist perspective developed by Sophie Watson (2000a). data were collected with discourse analysis, as proposed Judith Baxter (2008a). identifies two pertaining to Warsaw: 1) property discourse, under which returning former (or their heirs) is presented moral imperative; 2) expropriation focusing on abuse, fraud human misfortune stemming from passage municipal housing stock descendants owners. In both discourses, ascribed feminine identity, masculine one (G. Hofstede, G.J. 2007). That affected tenants' owners' positions policy process.