Most of the texts of the "Reader" - the work of leading Western gender and feminist theorists such as Judith Butler, Rosie Bridotti, Teresa de Lauretis, Lucy Irigare, Juliet Mitchell, Gail Rubin, Helen Sixu, Joan Scott, who played an important role in creating the new academic social disciplines "gender studies" in the Western social knowledge system. "Chrestomatia" is intended to be used as a basic educational material to create new training courses in gender disciplines in post-Soviet universities based on the experience of Western gender and feminist theory.