A San Francisco Chronicle bestseller, this first collection of female erotic writing has been eye-opening, celebratory, and often shocking. As Jeanette Winterson (Sexing the Cherry) writes in her foreword, "Erotica seeks to return women to their bodies by offering a looking glass and not a distorting mirror". Readers are sure to continue their applause of this landmark collection in paperback.
This collection shows that women have seen themselves as aggressive and receptive lovers, as well as philosophically sexual and loving partners, since the beginning of recorded history. -- SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE

Here is the first collection of female erotic writing through the ages, and the first to reveal the form's amazing scope--as multifaceted as the sexuality of women themselves. EROTICA reveals the history of women's erotic writing and reexamines the literary expression of female sexuality. Included in this unique anthology are: Kathy Acker, Jane Austen, Anne Boleyn, Kate Copin, H.D., Radclyffe Hall, Edna O'Brien, Vita Sackville-West, Stevie Smith, Marina Tsvetayeva, Virginia Woolf, and many others.