Book Review: 'Histoire politique du clitoris' by Delphine Gardey, Textuel, 2021, 154 pages. ISBN: 9782845978621

Abstract

Delphine Gardey offers an original and ambitious work which aims, according to the translation of its title in French, to produce a “political history of the clitoris”. Historian and sociologist, professor at the Institute of Gender Studies at the University of Geneva, she is a specialist in the thought of Judith Butler, but also well known for her work on gender, technology and science, including psychoanalysis.

Keywords

• clitoris
• history of the sciences
• gender studies
• feminist history