The magazines "Ça M'Intéresse Histoire" and "Causette" collaborate for a series of podcasts and a common special entitled "Corps Défendus".

Invited Tuesday of "Culture Médias", the editorial director of "Causette" Isabelle Motrot presents this co-production, which questions the origins and the nature of the injunctions made to the bodies of women, still very present today. 

INTERVIEW

Not too fat, but not skinny either.

Not too bare, but not too covered either.

Sexually available, but not too liberated either… Society's expectations of women still stem from the injunction and forced confrontation with a unique and unattainable model.

But have these injunctions always existed?

Have they evolved?

Are they weaker today?

It is to answer these questions that the magazines

Ça M'Intéresse Histoire

and

Causette are

joining forces.

Isabelle Motrot, editorial director of

Causette

is the guest of

Culture Médias on

Tuesday 

.

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The two magazines jointly publish

Corps Défendus

, a journalistic project that is both a special magazine shared by the two editors, and a series of podcasts.

For the editorial director of the feminist and feminist magazine, despite the general impression of progress, the situation remains problematic. 

"Perverse moments of respite"

"We will say, all the same, that things are progressing nowadays. We have finally succeeded in setting foot in the door of patriarchy," said Isabelle Motrot on Europe 1. "But the fact remains that we have all the same still a long way to go before the injunctions are really, really finished. "

By working on the evolutions of these injunctions made to the bodies of women, the two magazines realized that if the constraints changed, the noose would not necessarily loosen for women.

"There have been moments of respite, but which are often perverse moments of respite, analyzes the journalist. That is to say that when you are allowed something, it is often the better to take advantage of it."

"We must remain vigilant"

Isabelle Motrot thus takes the example of breasts, which society has imposed on women, for a time, to hide, a time to show.

The same goes for the hairs, which had to be kept so as not to pass for "a woman of bad life", and which must now be removed because they are considered dirty.

Two examples that can be found in the

Corps Défendus

podcasts 

.

"Anyway, it was and still are the men who make the rules," she says.

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The best example of these "perverse respites" is undoubtedly to be found in the years 1968-1970.

"With hindsight, we realized that this famous liberation of morals benefited men a lot and a little less women", observes Isabelle Motrot, while welcoming the many advances of the time, especially concerning the Abortion and contraception.

"But we must not forget that for a breakthrough, there have been a lot of setbacks. We are still, in some countries, fighting for abortion," she recalls.

It is perhaps this need not to let our guard down that the editorial director retains the most from the investigative work of the two editors.

"Each time, even when it's accepted or when you believe that things have progressed, we must remain vigilant, she says. Always."