INTERVIEW – Pregnancy is an experience that philosophy can question. Camille Froidevaux-Metterie gets down to it, supporting women’s words.
The opening of the collection “Immersions” published by Éditions Stock, which aims to enable intellectuals to think about the environment, Such a big belly! by Camille Froideva-Meteri, recounts her immersion in the Bichat maternity hospital, where she collected the words of about thirty pregnant women. “It turns out that my children were born here, and the doctor implementing the project gave birth to my daughter,” adds the philosopher, smiling. After writing about breasts, she reveals a fascinating study of the pregnant body.
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Madame Figaro . – How does this book continue your reflection on the female body?
Camille Froidevaux-Metterie. – I have been working for about ten years from the perspective of phenomenological feminism, which was opened by Simone de Beauvoir, who wants to put the body and the sexual body back at the center of thought. For him, women, who should be free subjects like men, are deprived of that freedom by their bodies, and in particular by their sexual bodies and…
Source: Le Figaro
