L'evento del femminile

What will we mean by “ontology of feminine”? There is a twofold difficulty in this locution: firstly, we have to clarify the sense of the expression “ontology”, which it is said in many ways, and secondly, we have to explain the meaning of the genitive in at least two ways: the objective and subjective one. In the case of “ontology of feminine”, the genitive may ask both “what” the feminine “is” (objective genitive), and what the feminine makes happen (subjective genitive). In order to understand this second meaning, it will be proposed to grasp “the feminine to the proof of the event”. This lemma intends to underline the “e-coming” of the feminine, its showing itself as an event. However, we do not pretend to restore an abstract neutralisation of the issues that have been posed by women philosophers but we want to find the way that focuses less on the issues and more on the traits that, by characterizing the feminine, also manifest her universality without its specificity being hidden. Among these, two characteristics are reported among others, namely the phenomenon of “gestation” and “being mother”, two events that characterize women in their own specificity beyond any opposition to the masculine or male.