Gender and human reproduction

In his article, the author analyzes the work of S. N. Mareev “Gender and Culture”, placing it in the socio-historical and problematic context of its origin and outlining the specifics of Mareev’s approach to the problem of gender through comparison with modern gender studies, which appeared at the same time as S.N. Mareyev’s article but became available in Russian translations much later. Stating that Marxist methodology led S. N. Mareyev in the same direction as the analysis of the social construction of gender, especially with P. Bourdieu, the author also notes that, unlike the vector of deployment of gender studies that turned against “male domination,” Mareyev’s reflection does not lead him to the intention to eliminate binary gender, and for reasons that are fundamental to the reproduction of sociality in the conditions of modern capitalism. Conducted apart from and independent of the new wave of Western studies of the 1990s, Mareyev’s work contains the potential to problematize the results of “gender trouble” in the West, which is still relevant today.