Laure BelhassenFemmes Animales

This book lists 55 animal metaphors that have been used about women across time and continents. Wandering between popular culture and classical sources, Laure Belhassen composed the portrait of this nuanced and fantasized fauna. These amusing and spicy little texts are illustrated with drawings from the origins of naturalistic illustration. Female animals reactivates correspondences that raise a major question of the male gender: who are these women?