Dossier thématique : Corps, genre et droit. II. Le Corps et la Cour Européenne des droits de l'HommeInternational audienceThe specificities of the labor relation lead to a paradox concerning the legal treatment and the legal status of the body at work : the body of the worker is, at the same time, the object of the working performance and the object of the protection of the law. So, in the subordination which characterizes the relation between employer and employee, the latter is often physically forced and gives its body to the employer. Limits at the free possession of the body at work are multiple. Nevertheless, the protection of this body at work was at the origin of the creation of the labor law and the numerous European and internatio...