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Hervé Corvellec.

Hervé Corvellec

Professor

Hervé Corvellec.

« For the women » - In Memoriam Simone Veil (1927-2017)

Author

  • Charles Barthold
  • Hervé Corvellec

Summary, in English

This In Memoriam presents the life of Simone Veil, an influential French politician, remembered for a law that made abortion legal in 1974. Simone Veil's contribution to the rights of women is featured as an instance of parrhesia (Foucault, 2011) that was able to establish a new regime of truth about the body, sexuality, and reproductive capacities of French women.

Department/s

  • Department of Service Studies

Publishing year

2018-10-15

Language

English

Pages

593-600

Publication/Series

Gender, Work and Organization

Volume

25

Issue

6

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell

Topic

  • Social Sciences Interdisciplinary

Keywords

  • Abortion
  • Parrhesia
  • Simone Veil

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0968-6673