Hapon N. Issue of Gender in the Philosophic Discourse in the Second half of the 20 th century.

The author substantiates conceptually the issue of gender in terms of late modernist and postmodernist projects of philosophy; the theoretical and methodological levels of its formation and the epistemologic stages of the development are defined. The author on the basis of learning the original sources investigates the theoretical foundation of the issue of gender social and cultural asymmetry, its modification in terms of late modernist philosophy in the 60-ies - 80- ies, and in the postmodernist philosophy in the 90-ies of the 20 th century. The defines the characteristics of putting and solving the issue of gender in the West-European, American and native researches. The conception of systematic and critical approach to the methodology of determining and solving the issue of gender within the native philosophical discourse is proposed.