Дискурс социальной политики как фрейм нового репертуара гендерных контрактов жен мобилизованных

ИНТЕРакция. ИНТЕРвью. ИНТЕРпретация. 2025. Т. 17. № 1. С. 87–107.

Осокина Д. А.

The article is dedicated to the study of a model of social policy aimed at supporting families of the mobilized in Russia as a tool for promoting a preferred gender contract. Families of the mobilized, having no experience of interacting with the institute of the army, are forced to adapt to social policy measures in a short time in the context of a military conflict. The context of the study: family policy is becoming a priority in the Russian Federation not only as support for socially vulnerable families of militants but also as an ideological tool for forming a new balance of power and gender relations in Russian families affected by militarization. The study uses a critical discourse analysis that allows us to study the discourse of social support in the rhetoric of lawmakers, as well as the assessment of these measures by the militants' wives collective discourses in thematic online chats. As a result of the analysis, family policy in relation to families of the mobilized is characterized as traditionally oriented and paternalistic, it is shown that there remains a gap between the normative concepts of targeted social assistance and the measures being implemented. The wives of those mobilized note satisfaction with the monetary level of support, but also difficulties in obtaining indirect benefits, and the slowness of the system in providing personalized assistance. The repertoire of women's gender contracts is differentiated, and there is a specific burden on the wives of the mobilized: in addition to employment in the labor market, household management and child rearing, the woman is entrusted with the partial provision of her husband's needs and masculine household duties that replace the contribution of the absent 'head of the family'.

Keywords: социальная политика, гендерный контракт, критический дискурс-анализ, gender contract, critical discourse analysis, Russian social policy