Coming from different sides, men and women need to make a journey into a common wholeness (Radford Ruether 1996, 251). Yet if we assume the permanence of gender differences (as I think we must), then the wholeness cannot be the same for both. Though both can become whole only together, the wholeness is specific to each. This in no way entails the affirmation of an unchangeable “essence” of genders, but follows from the recognition of an irreducible duality, rooted in the sexed body, of dynamically constructed gender
