Maîtresse Françoise
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Maîtresse Françoise (pen name
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Annick Foucault) is a publicly-known dominatrix
Dominatrix
Dominatrix or mistress is a woman or women who takes the dominant role in bondage, discipline and sadomasochism, or BDSM. A common form of address for a submissive to a dominatrix is "mistress", "ma'am", "domina" or "maîtresse"...
in Paris, France. In 1994, she introduced sadomasochism to general literature with her autobiographical account titled "Francoise Maîtresse". Her book was published in France by publisher Éditions Gallimard
Éditions Gallimard
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. It is the autobiographical account of the life of a woman revealing what damage can bring one to choose sexual practices that which others see as perversions, which she calls “freedom”. Pierre Bourgeade wrote in the foreword of the book, “This is movement about freedom, an unconscious freedom of its own.” According to the paperback book editor Jean-Jacques Pauvert, the book is the “major work of erotic literature of the ten last years". This notoriety brought her to be regularly invited to participate in several French television talk shows and to do interviews in connection with BDSM. Since 2001, she has refused to appear in any television programs. In her writings, Maîtresse Francoise interprets masochism through a psychoanalytical and philosophical approach. Francoise Maîtresse reports her carnal experiments are concordant with the philosophical thought of Gilles Deleuze
Gilles Deleuze
Gilles Deleuze , was a French philosopher who, from the early 1960s until his death, wrote influentially on philosophy, literature, film, and fine art. His most popular works were the two volumes of Capitalism and Schizophrenia: Anti-Oedipus and A Thousand Plateaus , both co-written with Félix...
. She was also congratulated by Charles J. Stivale, an American university professor who is a specialist of specialist of philosopher Gilles Deleuze
Gilles Deleuze
Gilles Deleuze , was a French philosopher who, from the early 1960s until his death, wrote influentially on philosophy, literature, film, and fine art. His most popular works were the two volumes of Capitalism and Schizophrenia: Anti-Oedipus and A Thousand Plateaus , both co-written with Félix...
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Published works
- Françoise Maîtresse (in French) - Editions Gallimard - ISBN 2-07-073834-5
- Paris : la Musardine, 2000, 216 p. (Lectures amoureuses de Jean-Jacques Pauvert ; 39). ISBN 2-84271-141-6
Foreign translation
- Françoise Maîtresse - (in Spanish) : El ama : Memorias de une domina (trad. de Joaquín Jordá)
- Barcelone : (in Spanish) Tusquets, 1996, 224 p. La Sonrisa vertical ; Number 99. ISBN 84-7223-787-7
- Barcelone : (in Spanish) Círculo de Lectoras, 1998, 235 p. (La Sonrisa vertical).
- Françoise Maîtresse - (in Italian) : Françoise Maîtresse : la Dominatrice
- Editions Sonzogno
Novels
- « Élodie en sous-sol ». Revue littéraire Digraphe, septembre 1993, Number 65.
- « Magnum le Chien ». Revue littéraire Digraphe, décembre 1993, Number 66.
- « Les femmes pornocrates ». Revue littéraire Digraphe, septembre 1994, Number 70.
- « Laissez-nous ». Revue littéraire Digraphe, winter 1997, Number 79.
- « Laissez-nous ». "Leave us" Marquis Number 19 English and French version
- « Pleine lune ». "full moon" Marquis Number 21 English and French version
Perform
- Les Bruits d'Avila. At "la Sorbonne university" - Paris. Philippe Guénin :fr:Philippe Guénin. Mise en scène Monique Kissel
Critical bibliography
« Françoise Maîtresse ». In Cousin, Philippe (dir.). L’Encyclopédie du sadomasochisme. Paris : la Musardine, 2000, p. 53-55. ISBN 2-84271-088-6- Anne Larue, professeur de littérature à Paris XIII. Le Masochisme ou comment devenir un suicidé de la société. Soignies (Belgique) : Éditions Talus d’approche, 2002, 210 p. (Libre choix ; 18). ISBN 2-87246-091-8
- Catherine Anthony, sociologue. L'Amour aujourd'hui. Paris : le Cherche midi, 1998, 205 p. (Documents). ISBN 2-86274-572-3
- Jean-Jacques Pauvert. De l'infini à zéro : anthologie de textes érotiques du XXe siècle. Paris : Stock, 2001, 717 p. (Anthologie historique des lectures érotiques. ; [5]). ISBN 2-234-05379-X
- Annie Le Brun. In "Du trop de réalité". Folio essais note 136 p. 232 ISBN 2-07-031495-2
- Pierre Cormary, L'enfant qui criait au loup, Carnets de la philosophie N°7 - Le plaisir et rien d'autre