Bulanova-Duvalko L. The phenomenon of femininity in contemporary culture

The dissertation is one of the first complex cultural and philosophical studies of the phenomenon of femininity in the context of feminist philosophy. The conceptual understanding of such aspects of the womanhood as normative heterosexuality, conventional attractiveness, lookism, beautification, idealization of motherhood experience, gender division of household labor, economic exploitation is realized on the theoretical and methodological basis of the feminist versions of phenomenology and psychoanalysis. The combination of theoretical discourses of several philosophical trends in the analysis of the aesthetic representations of femininity allowed to understand profoundly the mechanisms of formation and maintaining of the stereotypical feminine images through the dynamics of culture and history, to justify the perspectives of the sense-constructive potential of womanhood for the presentation of new models of feminine identity, which is not limited to the norms of patriarchal ideology.