Gender interpretations of reproductive strategies in the culture of modern Russian society

Transformation of society inevitably leads to transformation of culture. The relevance of studying the
reproductive cultural transformations of modern Russian society is increasing due to the obvious presence of
gender crisis at the macrosocial and microsocial levels. Gender stereotyping in procreation is increasingly in conflict
with the variety of masculine and feminine reproductive scenarios, the demarcation of norms and pathologies of
reproductive behavior.
The gender approach in studying of reproductive behavior in modern Russian men and women in this article
is aimed to typologize and analyze masculine and feminine reproductive scenarios – from the most conformal
(pronatalistic) to oppositional (antinatalistic). The rejection of the totally naturalistic approach to the interpretation
of motherhood and fatherhood in favor of analyzing the sociocultural components of the currently relevant
feminine and masculine reproductive strategies is much more responsive to the social needs and the demands of
modern humanitarian science.