THE PARADOX OF THE FEMININE TODAY

Abstract

The present study offers a status quaestionis about today’s paradox of the femininity with reference to a greater self-realization of the woman through a growing empow-erment and the inequality of the achievements and the happiness obtained by the woman, according to the most recent studies analyzed from a feminine theological perspective. Due to the fact that the question of the specificity of the woman requires a conceptual precision of the terms “gender”, “corporality” and the distinction between femininity and masculinity, which also refers to the specificity of the male, this pres-ent rapprochement shows how the overwhelming problems of today’s society receive its most profound answer from the kenosis of Christ, that is to say “to loose one’s life is to gain it”.