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Sex, a political object?
History

Sex, a political object?

written by Olivier Meuwly

DOSSIER «LE SEXE SANS COMPLEXE» | The French historian René Rémond, who died in 2007, summed up the answer to this question in a shocking formula: sex, he wrote in 1987, entered politics in 1968! Does this aphorism imply that sex and politics, prior to that date, lived in separate spheres, intersecting only in the private lives of political actors and actresses?

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Gender-neutral toilets? Come on!
Philosophy

Gender-neutral toilets? Come on!

By Danilo Heyer · June 17, 2019
On Wednesday May 22, Jonas Follonier, editor-in-chief of this magazine, shared on social networks a photo of the men's toilet door at the Faculté des lettres et sciences humaines of the Université de Neuchâtel. On the door was a small poster masking the male logo and stating that «the toilets had been made gender-free because the male-female sigils displayed on the toilets oppress a section of the university population». The action was instigated by the «UniNE collective for the women's* and feminist strike», which is «calling for a boycott of these stereotyped, medieval codes».