PHILOSOPHY OF POSTMODERNISM AS A THEORETICAL JUSTIFICATION OF THE WOMEN SOCIAL VALUE

Eleonora Skiba

doi:10.23856/3838

Eleonora Skiba Dnipropetrovsk State University of Internal Affairs http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6364-5207

Keywords: patriarchy, postmodern turn, feminism, gender theory, subordinate position of personality, socio-cultural marginalization of women

Abstract

The study analyzes postmodern discourse and its connection with feminist, gender studies and the philosophy of postmodernism. The analysis proves that gender theory shares with postmodernism methods of explanation and interpretation of human experience such as reconstruction, hermeneutics and others. The constructivist methodology of culture reading allowed us to argue that socio-cultural inequality and the exclusion of women from the general picture of the world as an active subject has no natural basis, but arises as a result of socio-cultural marginalization of women. The study examines the philosophical aspects of gender discourse and their interpretation in postmodernism. The work characterizes gender discourse in the context of postmodern philosophy, the philosophical foundations of gender theory and the main aspects of the interaction of postmodern philosophy and gender theory. Historical and philosophical analysis of the formation of gender theory and its relationship to the philosophy of postmodernism show that there is much in common between gender theory and postmodernism. Both the theory of postmodernism and gender theory argue that the metanarratives of the Enlightenment lost their legitimizing force, that the demands and claims that were presented as universal were valid only for men and women of a certain culture, class and race and a certain historical period.

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