Intellectual manifestos of modern feminist sociologists

The article is devoted to the analysis of the sociological work of famous researchers — Ann Oakley, Donna Haraway, Shulamit Firestone and Judith Butler, who worked within the framework of the feminist paradigm in sociology, which interprets social phenomena and processes from a femininocentric point of view. The work of these women sociologists has become a kind of intellectual manifesto — a written statement of the scientific principles of the feminist trend in sociology, based on the belief in the constant discrimination of women in all spheres of social life.
Ie author analyzes the works of a bright representative of the liberal-reformist trend in feminism, Ann Oakley, whose scientific work is divided into four areas: “sex and gender”, “domestic work and family life”, “childbirth and medicine” and “sociology proper”. Exactly E. Oakley is considered the ancestor of the concept of “gender” in sociology. She divorced the concepts of “gender” (gender) as an unshakable biological attribute and as a cultural determinant that determines the conceptualization of “masculinity” and “femininity”.
The article pays enough attention to one of the founders of cyberfeminism — a trend in modern feminist thought associated with the study of cyberspace, the Internet and information technology — Donna Jean Haraway, whose greatest fame was brought by the “cyborg theory”. A cyborg is a being whose borderline position at the intersection of the boundaries between nature and culture, body and mind, sex and gender, fact and fiction, serves as an argument for denying biological sex as a determinant of gender inequality in culture and society.
A significant place in the article is occupied by the figure of Shulamit Firestone, one of the founders of radical feminism. Her works, based on the fusion of ideas borrowed from Marxism, feminism and psychoanalysis, carried out a subtle scientific analysis that allowed linking the structures of gender inequality and economic stratification, as well as environmental degradation and the policy of scientific knowledge. In a style that later became a hallmark of feminist works of the 1970s, Sh. Firestone showed clear and internal links between the generally accepted expression of heterosexuality, “forced femininity” and the institutionalization of gender inequality.
At the end of the article, the author turns to the work of Judith Butler, a representative of poststructuralism, a specialist in the Jeld of phenomenology and theory of gender, who opposes the existentialist vision of the problems of personality and being, culture and general human physiology, the interdependence between gender and sexual relations.
In general, the works of modern theorists of sociology and at the same time feminist sociologists have set new fields of sociological search, these feminist sociologists call for the construction of a new model of society, up to the establishment of a “new gender order” at the macro and micro levels of social life.

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