Abstract

Abstract:

This special issue traces emerging trends in women’s writing of sex and sexual encounter in French, in France and in Canada since the turn of the twenty-first century. While women’s writing in French in the twentieth century notably re-cast the script of sexual pleasure to write of women’s sexual encounters in often empowering ways, more recent works tell more varied and often troubling stories. In the introduction, the guest editors present and contextualize the collected analyses’ examination of the negotiation of sexual and textual boundaries in female-authored texts that challenge thematic and formal constraints on women’s articulation of sexual experience.

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