Tell me venus, why do they hunt women ? : from the critical writing of the archives to the performative writing of an erotic and feminine lived experience ; Dites-moi Vénus, pourquoi chassent-ils les femmes ? : de l'écriture critique des archives performative d'une expérience vécue érotique et féminine ; Diga-me vênus, por que se cacam as mulheres ? : da escrita crítica dos arquivos à escrita performativa de uma experiência vivida erótica e feminina

"Tell me Venus, why do they hunt women?" tells the story of the uses and figurative representations of Venus through a critical writing of the archive on the hunt for women, while presenting a performative writing of an erotic and feminine lived experience. Based on a history of women and a methodology of archaeology and genealogy of knowledge, the thesis reconstructs a history of the hunt for witchy, colonised and emancipated women chased by the name and embodied figure of Venus, the goddess of love and beauty (among other sexual and feminine attributes). It is about reading and feeling this ambivalent history between the figure of Venus, her moral representations and the female erotic lived experience. It is also about understanding through critical writing the archives as the proofs of a history of anti-feminism and a systematisation of epistemic injustice. The research presents in an intersectional way a portrait of sensitive figures that revolve around the representation of femininity. Starting from the canon of beauty named Aphrodite/Venus (its myths and archives), it shows how the hunt for women is transposed into a modern aesthetic that contributes to the production of categories of race, class and gender that govern the establishment of the rules of beauty from the European classical period onwards. This thesis project in philosophy also proposes philosophical and aesthetic writing devices, nourished by an epistemic and artistic transversality, through an "artivist" methodology that intertwines art and activism as modes of thought and know-how. In this way, the methodology thinks about the practice of awareness in the face of the lived experience of antifeminist injury. The conclusion of the thesis presents an erotic politics of relationship according to Audre Lorde, Edouard Glissant, and a pedagogy of desire according to bell hooks. ; "Dis-moi Vénus, pourquoi chassent-ils les femmes ?" raconte l’histoire des usages et des représentations figuratives de Vénus par une écriture critique des archives sur ...