DEHUMANIZING OF WOMEN IN METHODOLOGICAL PUBLICATIONS OF RUSSIAN IDEOLOGISTS


DOI: https://doi.org/10.17721/2520-2626/2023.32.4

Julia STREBKOVA

Abstract


The results of a study of intangible aspects of combat readiness of Russian combatants had been represented in the article. In particular, the gender markers of the readiness of Russian militants to attack with the commission of sexual violence were investigated. The process of formation of socio-psychological attitudes in the motivational sphere of Russian men had been illustrated. A socio-philosophical analysis based on a gender approach was used to study the relationship between ideology, politics and social practices. Author emphasized, that analysis of the causes of complex social phenomena and processes requires possession of a complex of methodological and interpretive practices, which goes beyond jurisprudence or psychology and requires socio-philosophical research. Based on a number of criteria, a collection of methodical materials was selected for analysis - a publication specialized on pro-life and anti-choice topics. It was found that under the guise of an educational project, russian ideologues had been carried out a destructive influence on the personality of men. The peculiarities of such influence are revealed, which are illustrated by original Russian-language quotations from methodical materials. The list of target groups of this ideological project had been given. The geography of such projects had been studied. As a result of the study, applied aspects of the formation of misogyny in the Russian military were clarified. Methods of dehumanization of woman through the deprivation of a person's right to control his body in an anti-choice context had been demonstrated. It has been confirmed that the dehumanization of women enables gender-based violence as a means of warfare, including rape, enslavement, and forced pregnancy. It has been found that the dehumanization of real women as a group is a strategy of so called ―russian world‖ and a condition for sexual violence.

Keywords


socio-philosophical analytics; dehumanization; gender analysis; gender-based violence; ideology; war readiness; biopolitics; anti-choice; russian world; intangible elements of combat power

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