Sartre scholars and others engage with Jean-Paul Sartre's descriptions of the human body, bringing him into dialogue with feminists, sociologists, psychologists and historians and asking: What is pain? Do men and women experience their bodies differently? How do society and culture shape our bodies? Can we re-shape them?

ELIZABETH A. BEHNKE is the Coordinator and Senior Research Fellow of the Study Project in Phenomenology of the Body, USA NICK CROSSLEY is a professor and current head of Sociology at the University of Manchester, UK LEWIS R. GORDON is the Laura H. Carnell Professor of Philosophy, Religion, and Jewish Studies at Temple University in Philadelphia, USA CHRISTINA HOWELLS is Professor of French at the University of Oxford (UK) and a Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford, UK MONIKA LANGER is Associate Professor Emerita at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada ADRIAN MIRVISH is a professor of philosophy at California State University, Chico, USA DERMOT MORAN holds the Chair of Philosophy (Metaphysics and Logic) at University College Dublin, Ireland MICHAEL GILLAN PECKITT has just completed his PhD at the Department of Humanities at the University of Hull, UK