Fim de uma ordem: natureza, lei divina, feminismo.

This text is guided by the hypothesis that the Catholic Church teaching and gender studies operate on distinct epistemological assumptions in formulating the human nature notion, and its analytical force transcends academic speculation and theological realms. This argument is based on the analysis of some some approaches to the comprehension of nature in gender studies and pontifical documents. Far from being merely an epistemological clash, the political relevance of the gender category and its intrinsic relationship with feminism emerges. Moreover, we discuss how scientific and doctrinal lexicons slide into a society where there is a political confrontation between two movements: feminism and anti-gender campaigns, the latter with transnational dimensions that surpass the conservative groups of Christianity that lead them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]