Keyword: «antifeminism»

There is rather curious non-trivial situation with the women's movement in modern Russia: on the one hand, we can witness "high" feministic discourse in the public sphere, on the other hand, women’s antifeminism is rapidly intensifying. In this fundamentally conflicting confrontation, which makes a split in the ranks of the Russian women's movement (which is constantly emerging) and significantly undermines its emancipatory character, the following contents of the article help us to understand the nature of the social processes that are taking place: (1) the theory of "social chaos", (2) the researches in the field of gender (female and male) identity establishment, (3) the latest anthropological data on the modified model of classical Russian family. Thus, the article admits the fact of women’s antifeminism surge reasonableness in Russia by revealing the causes of Russian women's mass anti-feminism genesis, which are not obvious for modern feministic discourse.