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Article: Governing through speech: the new state administration of bodies *.
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- Social Research
- Article date:
- June 22, 2003
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CONDITIONAL decriminalization is the most obvious common feature of the change in practices affecting the relationship between the individual and his or her body that has taken place over the last few decades. This is particularly true of corporal practices involving the beginning and end of life, which has seen the conditional decriminalization in France of the use of contraception in 1967, abortion in 1975, sex change in 1976, homosexuality in 1982, (1) and today, the insistent demand for the decriminalization of euthanasia. This withdrawal of authority has taken place by the removal of the penalty rather than by the proclamation of formal rights. In this area of civil ...