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This project is to research the notions of violence and pleasure in erotic contemporary best-seller novels written by women and focused on women´s population as primary readership. I intend to continue to proceed the investigation about the novels, by the cultural history view, gender relations and emotions theory, to a historical analysis of discourses and speech in the so-called “chick lit” best seller novels considered porn, the “soft porn” – a growing fictional literary genre in Brazil in the last 20 years, whose main characters are contemporary middle-class women and their major dilemma – in relation to issues of the main addressed subjects and the ways they combine with the ideas about love, pleasure, dreams and life projects and how they affect and also combine with the construction of subjectivities and sensitivities of women. The questioning of the sources will have as a starting point the perception about liberties and the attributed meanings and limits granted to the relationships between the genres, built by the characters, which dilemmas, conflicts, and solutions experienced in the plot. The selection of books will obey the rule of being settled in the list of best sellers or in the average of large print runs of Brazilian sale , since the mid-2000’s when this genre began to emerge in the Brazilian editorial market. Taking into account the issues about edition in Roger Chartier´s studies, I understand that this literature negotiates with the approval of the public who consumes it, in a process of circularity that suits to the reader´s way of thinking and, to a certain extent, working as an influencer in shaping opinions.