https://booksandideas.net// Books & Ideas is the English-language mirror website of La Vie des Idées, a free online journal which has gained a large readership and established itself in France as a major place for intellectual debate since 2007. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://booksandideas.net/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH68/siteon0-04014.png?1675949311 https://booksandideas.net// 68 144 https://booksandideas.net/This-is-their-body https://booksandideas.net/This-is-their-body 2016-03-24T07:22:18Z text/html en Sébastien Roux identity truth body subject Florence Gould Foundation <p>How did the body come to play such a crucial part in the definition of contemporary identities? Relying on studies on transplants, childbirth or people's relation to corpses, Dominique Memmi brings to light what is socially and politically at stake in the fact that the self is rooted in the body.</p>