Given the widespread use of biomedical techniques to shape gendered bodies (contraception, reproduction, desire, identity...), how can we talk about the organic from a critical perspective? This book contrasts the biologization of gender with its naturalization, two technical cultures of embodiment

Often understood as an intimate bodily fluid, human milk is also a political, medical, and legal object. From the late nineteenth century to the present, this book offers an original history of the circulation of human milk in France outside direct breastfeeding, and of the systems that have shaped its collection, preservation, and redistribution.

This book proposes a sociohistory of the social control of women's bodies from the perspective of the mobilizations for free abortion from 1972 to 1984 in France. It examines the medicalization of a procedure through the exclusion of lay women and at the same time the feminist appropriation of abortion knowledge.

Women artists are less visible than men artists on the contemporary art market. Yet, they are in the majority in art schools. How can we explain this paradox? This book offers a new perspective on gender inequalities in artistic careers by examining the career paths of the graduates of a prestigious French school of visual arts.

the book offers a novel analysis of the gendered dynamics that permeate the forms of collective action and the way in which commitment contributes to changing gender relations in contemporary Mali. From decolonisation in 1960 to 1991 revolution, four decades of social and political struggles have shaped the country's highly non-consensual history.