Le corps du genre

25 September | « Livres en dialogue » evening presentation of the book

Thursday

September

2025

6:30 pm

8:30 pm

visuel livre en dialogue le corps du genre

How can discourse, materialities and struggles be articulated in an epistemological approach to gender? - Event in French -

The Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme is hosting an evening presentation of the book Le corps du genre, published on 19 June 2025 in the ‘Interventions’ collection by Éditions de la MSH.

This ‘Livres en dialogue’ session will welcome author Luca Greco, in conversation with Nedjma Bouakra, journalist, documentary filmmaker and reporter for France Culture.

After the event, you will have the opportunity to ask our guests any questions you may have.

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About the book

What is gender made of? Language? Matter? Once we have taken into account language but also other materialities such as objects, bodies, technology and nature, is gender still an intrinsic characteristic of human beings? Or does it transcend the human to reach the non-human, the beyond-human, the post-human? These are some of the questions addressed in this book, which lies at the intersection of theoretical debate and current political issues.

A rigorous sociolinguistic analysis of contemporary debates on gender
A revolution in our linguistic understanding of gender

→ Find out more about the book

About the speakers

Luca Greco is a sociolinguistics professor at the University of Lorraine and deputy director of the Gender Institute. His research focuses on the relationship between gender and language, multimodality in interaction, and performance in art, social sciences, and everyday activities.

Nedjma Bouakra is a journalist, documentary filmmaker and reporter for France Culture radio. She explores our individual and collective representations of our environment, racism and our bodies. Her investigations focus in particular on the political construction of exclusion and its grey archives, holding in one hand the perception of the ‘social world’ by its actors and in the other the critical knowledge that renews this perception.