Pustova M. Gender epistemology in the philosophy of postmodernity (historical and philosophic analysis).

The object - interaction of gender and knowledge as a gnosiological and cultural phenomenon. The aim - historical and philosophic analysis of the problem of gender epistemology in the Western European postmodern philosophy. The methods - historism, comparative and dialectic approaches, theoretical approaches of postmodernism.In the dissertation the impact of the postmodern discourses of knowledge on the feminist epistemology is under analysis in the aspects of the "conflict of interpretations" of Frankfurt school and French postmodernism. The dissertation claims that both the postmodern critical theory and structuralism admit the validity of all the discursive practices and this leads to the understanding of the new gender meanings and 'truths" which are being born in postmodernism. The sphere - teaching process.