A new reading of literary texts by major writers from Russia, France, Germany, Austria, England, the Netherlands, and the USA is being carried out from the point of view of gender differentiation. This allows us to move away from traditional literary and socio-political interpretations of literary classics. The process of formation and consolidation of the social roles of men and women in the public consciousness is analyzed. For literary scholars, teachers, students and graduate students.

Contents: M.V. Mikhailova. Women playwrights of the Silver AgeE.V. Sokolova. The dialectic of “female” and “male” in the poetic cycle “Crisis” and the novel “Steppenwolf” by Hermann Hesse. Livery. “Phaedra complex” of socialismH.T. Pakhsaryan. “The Second Sex” by Simone de Beauvoir and the fate of feminism in modern French literatureH.H. Carlina. Musketeering as a type of male behavior in the novels of Vasily AksenovN.B. Kalashnikov. Women's prose of the Netherlands of the 20th century S.P. Tashkenov. Thomas Bernhard: Metastases of patriarchy and “women's writing” E.A. Tsurganova. Novels of Doris Lessing in the context of the gender approach G.V. Kuchumova. Gender coordinates of the Austrian novel 1980–2000 Y.S. Linkova. Woman and her role in art in T. Chevalier’s novels “The Girl with a Pearl Earring” and “The Lady with the Unicorn.”