Noting that there were few female erotic anthologies and that in mixed collections, women were poorly represented, Romain Enriquez and Camille Koskas wanted, with Erotic writings of women. A new history of desire, fill a gap. The result ? A major anthology which focuses on the lived experience of half of humanity, where writing is a means of re-appropriating female desire. More than 200 authors, 700 texts from all periods and genres (novels, poetry, essays, theater or stories). From Louise Labé to Rachilde, via Juliette Drouet, Marguerite Duras and Alina Reyes. Without forgetting Virginie Despentes, Nina Bouraoui or Mireille Havet. In eleven sections preceded by enlightening introductions, this rich and varied harvest takes us through the places of desire, lesbian eros (Violette Leduc, Monique Wittig), apprenticeship in love, the body, tragic eros (Pauline Réage), mystic (Marguerite de Navarre) or metaphysics (Joyce Mansour).
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