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This article offers a reading of Royaume scotch tape (2015) by Chloé Savoie-Bernard. In this, her first collection of poetry, the author effects a subversion and a resignification of the feminine ideal. What is called a counter-feminine, or the reversal of a traditional and stereotyped feminine, pervades the pages of this collection. Drawing in turn from discourse and feminist theories, notably those of Ruth Amossy, Linda Hutcheon, Judith Butler, Teresa de Lauretis and Nancy K. Miller, we will show how Savoie-Bernard plays with stereotypes of an idealized feminine through the use of ironic and trivial language that gives rise to a dialectic of deconstruction and of reconstruction of the feminine. Thus, she shatters gender codes in order to erect a kingdom that rattles a disenchanted femininity.