GENDER STUDY AS A NEW BRANCH OR ASPECT OF SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY

Abstract

Although Social Philosophy, i.e., the Philosophy of Social Relations and Institutions, has been studying Man and Woman as the two basic pillars of the human family and of the human society, in general, and also the structure and function of the inter-relationship between Man and Woman, especially within the family set-up, almost from times immemorial both in the East and in the West, a separate and specialised philosophical study of the gender-aspect in the familial and in the social relationship at large, has not yet been undertaken, at least not in a systematic and sustained manner, by social philosophers in general.