« Perverse, hysterical, melancholy, these terms were invented to control the body and sexuality of women » – Liberation

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At the end of the 19th century, they refused marriage and maternity, wanted to live their sexuality, experience their freedom. Amazons or Sappho Sisters, Baudelaire saw them « Modernity ». Later, it was Virginia Woolf, Simone de Beauvoir, Monique Wittig who make their voices heard against these speeches which enclose and pathologize the demand for emancipation of women (hysteria, depression, perversion).

Between bad mother and whore, three fields are particularly targeted: maternity, femininity, sexuality. These intro, famous or invisible women are reduced, in the daily life of their lives, in silence or madness.

In his test, The heroines of modernity: bad girls and materialist psychoanalysis (La Découverte Éditions), Psychoanalyst Laurie Laufer starts from these « Bad girls » To show how daring and strength jostle hierarchies, powers, inequalities. Free figures that resonate with its own psychoanalytic practice. Professor at Paris-Cité University, Laurie LAUFER is one of the votes of the Prat renewal