Dortseva, E. V. Methodological Background to Post-Feminist Paradigm in Social Studies

Abstract: The article reviews the most famous tendencies of the feministic movement in the West. This movement formed the social knowledge studying the experience of social relations as well as social institutions directly related to women. The author shows how social feminists tried to overcome ‘androcentrism’ and excessive peculiarity, double standards and machismo but actually overcame only dualism in social researches dividing social studies into ‘men’s’ and ‘women’s’ components. Later post-feminist paradigm became the turnpike of social studies and now it is continuing to form active, free of gender prejudices, social science of the 21st century

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