Edited by Margaret Reynolds; Foreword by Jeanette Winterson. Here is the first collection of female erotic writing through the ages, and the first to reveal the form's amazing scope--as multifaceted as the sexuality of women themselves. Erotica reveals the history of woman's erotic writing and reexamines the literary expression of female sexuality. It also recovers perspectives on sexual extremes hitherto sanitized or dismissed as disreputable.
"This collection shows that women have seen themselves as aggressive and receptive lovers, as well as philosophically sexual and loving partners, since the beginning of recorded history." --San Francisco Chronicle
Contributors include: Kathy Acker Radclyffe Hall Jane Austen Annie LeClerc Anne Boleyn Edna O'Brien Charlotte Bronte Alicia Ostriker Elizabeth Barrett Browning Jean Rhys Kate Chopin George Eliot Virginia Woolf Gertrude Stein Christina Rossetti and many others.
MargaretReynolds is a writer, academic, critic and broadcaster. Her works include The Penguin Book of Lesbian Short Stories, The Sappho Companion, Erotica: Women's Writings from Sappho to Margaret Atwood, and Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology.
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Edited by Margaret Reynolds; Foreword by Jeanette Winterson. Here is the first collection of female erotic writing through the ages, and the first to reveal the form's amazing scope--as multifaceted as the sexuality of women themselves. Erotica reveals the history of woman's erotic writing and reexamines the literary expression of female sexuality. It also recovers perspectives on sexual extremes hitherto sanitized or dismissed as disreputable.
"This collection shows that women have seen themselves as aggressive and receptive lovers, as well as philosophically sexual and loving partners, since the beginning of recorded history." --San Francisco Chronicle
Contributors include: Kathy Acker Radclyffe Hall Jane Austen Annie LeClerc Anne Boleyn Edna O'Brien Charlotte Bronte Alicia Ostriker Elizabeth Barrett Browning Jean Rhys Kate Chopin George Eliot Virginia Woolf Gertrude Stein Christina Rossetti and many others.
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MargaretReynolds is a writer, academic, critic and broadcaster. Her works include The Penguin Book of Lesbian Short Stories, The Sappho Companion, Erotica: Women's Writings from Sappho to Margaret Atwood, and Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology.
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