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This collection is the first to explore the tradition and influences of women's erotica. It brings together the very best of erotic writing by women, from Sappho in Ancient Greece to Colette and Anais Nin in France, and comes bang up to date with some of the most controversial writers today, including Kathy Acker, Erica Jong and Marilyn Hacker. Creatively arranged by themes, instead of chronology, the anthology yields telling juxtapositions which challenge conventional views of what erotica is - and what it is not. It also recovers women's perspectives on extremes of sexual experience which have been either sanitised or dismissed as disreputable. The result is eye-opening and often shocking, with tastes of texts as far apart as confessions extracted from condemned witches, nuns memoirs, accounts of sexual torture, pulp novels and contemporary (very) Dirty Realism.Thoroughly inclusive, both in literary genre (fiction, poetry, drama, letters journals, autobiography, prayer and pornography) and in sexual orientation, this bold counterblast to the usual coy selections stimulates and excites the imagination whilst remaining an authoritative and respectable anthology of unrespectable writing. Themes include: invitations, voyerism, lust, romance, fantasies, dangers, imaging desire, frustrations, consumations.
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- PublisherRivers Oram Press/Pandora List
- Publication date1990
- ISBN 10 004440672X
- ISBN 13 9780044406723
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number2
- Number of pages500
- EditorReynolds Margaret
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Book Description Laminated illustrated wrappers, 8vo, 24 cm, xxxi,362 pp. From the blurb: "This is the most authoritative and respectable anthology of unrespectable writing. Provocative and daring, it is the first to uncover the full scope of erotic writing from Sappho in Ancient Greece to the most controversial writers today. Here is the best writing (and the best reading) from a range of literary genres - fiction, poetry, drama, songs, letters, journals, autobiography, prayer and pornography - and every kind of sexual preference and experience.Questioning, challenging and celebrating, this eye-opening collection reclaims the articulation of women's erotic lives." Includes a foreword by Jeanette Winterson. Wrappers somewhat creased, contents agetoned, otherwise Good. Seller Inventory # ABE-30429
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