Artemieva O. Gender studies in the context of postnonclassic rationality

The dissertation is devoted to the investigation of the gender studies in the context of postnonclassic rationality. In this work the specific of gender studies was analyzed in different aspects epistemological, methodological and axiological. The main sources and variety of gender studies were investigated. On the base of this analysis author defined gender studies as totality of different practices and tendencies which forms complex and plural object. In the result of investigation of gender studies in methodological and epistemological aspects author made the conclusion about its interdisciplinarity. It can be claimed that the main features of gender studies are postnonclassic ones. In work was underlined on alternative methodological basis of gender studies. The raising of new rationality is bond with the necessity of new values. In work claims that values which performs in gender studies are this new values of which society needs.