"Les usages politiques du corps". Université d’été du 25 au 30 aout 2014 en Albanie. / Elsa Daniels et Julien Quelennec

Which body for the Femen ?

Elsa Daniels ( Master in Gender and Sexuality at National Central University) Julien Quelennec (Phd in philosophy at National Chiao Tung University/Paris 8) The Femen represents an obvious example of the political use of the body. Their chosen weapon, the breast, is used to develop their tactic of “sextremism.” The political use of the breast is not something new, but it seems that through the actions of the Femen, it is re-deployed in a new fashion, within the context of a discourse on sex (...)