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2018; Wiley; Volume: 25; Issue: 6 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1111/gwao.12232

1468-0432

Charles Barthold, Hervé Corvellec,

Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

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.