The evolution of the bizarre and fantasmatic myth of the fountain woman in the face of the lack of knowledge and representation of female sexuality
Abstract
The fountain woman is a marginalised and fanciful female figure for several centuries. Due to the invisibility of the body, the female genital system and more specifically the clitoris since the 18th century, the figure of the fountain woman is struggling to assert itself as a common figure for all women. It is with this in mind that I would like to address in this memory the scandalous and fantasy nature of the fountain woman in the face of a voluntary lack of knowledge and contemporary representations of female sexuality.