French Erotic Fiction
Hughes, Alex / Ince, Kate![French Erotic Fiction](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/335/33593016/CHSBZCOP0333593016.jpg)
This fascinating study explores the pleasures and torments of love and sexuality as depicted in the works of six important French women writers: Rachilde, Colette, Leduc, Wittig, Cixous and Duras. Historically, erotic literature has been dominated by male writers. Feminist critics have argued that its central motifs of voyeurism, sadomasochism, incest and violence to women's bodies are governed by the unconscious fantasies and prejudices of a ...