Introduction. Encagements genrés. Femmes-oiseaux, cages dorées et érotismes plumassiers

Introduction to the thematic issue “Encagements genrés : femmes-oiseaux, cages dorées et érotismes plumassiers” of “Images re-vues. Histoire, anthropologie et théorie de l'art” 21|2025, results of the study day « Femmes-oiseaux et encagements genrés. Genre, sexualité et désir autour des cages et des volières » (Lyon, December 2021). This study day, widely open to history, art history, architectural or garden history, fashion history, performing arts, semiology, visual, musical, cinematographic, theatrical, choreographic or literary studies, gender studies, sociology and ethnology, was part of the research programme "Nature(s) en cage(s): une approche interdisciplinaire des volières" (PuNaCa - Putting nature in a cage: an interdisciplinary research programme on aviaries). It focused on the motif of female caging and studied, in a multidisciplinary perspective, on symbolic as well as material, practical, iconographic or linguistic levels, the relations that have been woven between the taste for ornithology, gender relations and the imaginaries of containment applied to love and sexuality.