The female body is many things: a political issue, an object, an incubator – this book explores what it means to call it existence.

Our society is obsessed with the female body. However, what it is truly like to inhabit one and the role it plays in a woman's biography is what this book seeks to uncover. Journalist and columnist Michèle Roten examines herself from her toenails to the tips of her hair. She shares stories of childhood scars, the one from her C-section, and the one from a teenage pimple, wonders about her tattoos, reflects on her knees, recalls magical healings and episodes of anorexia, and questions whether, as a feminist, she should be more concerned about her vulva. This hypersubjective exploration ultimately serves as a remarkably exemplary narrative of the general history of the female body. This essay is divided into five parts, beginning with an inventory, continuing with the life of the body itself, and also looking at the bodies of others, recounting the incredible powers that can be mobilized in extreme situations.