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Title:The Sadeian Woman
Author:Angela Carter
Book Format:Paperback
Book Edition:Special Edition
Pages:Pages: 154 pages
Published:February 12th 1988 by Pantheon (first published 1978)
Categories:Nonfiction. Feminism. Philosophy. Writing. Essays. Sexuality. Criticism. Literary Criticism
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The Sadeian Woman Paperback | Pages: 154 pages
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Sexuality is power. So says the Marquis de Sade, philosopher and pornographer. His virtuous Justine, who keeps to the rules, is rewarded with rape and humiliation; his Juliette, Justine's triumphantly monstrous antithesis, viciously exploits her sexuality.

With brilliance and wit, Angela Carter takes on these outrageous figments of de Sade's extreme imagination and transforms them into symbols of our time: The Hollywood sex goddesses, mothers and daughters, pornography, even the sacred shrines of sex and marriage lie devastatingly exposed before our eyes.

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Original Title: The Sadeian Woman: And the Ideology of Pornography
ISBN: 0394758935 (ISBN13: 9780394758930)
Edition Language: English


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Fucked up and read the criticism first. I don't disagree with her but.. ehhhh

preface is really good and interesting, but I was less interested in and convinced by the later chapters (and also a bit bored to be honest - surprisingly so, considering the enormous amount of weird sex stuff that happened).

Carter appreciates pornography, in her own way. I appreciate Carter. I bet she would kick Camille Paglia's ass in a fight.

This is an extraordinary piece of writing and I don't think I can contribute much to what has already been said about it except maybe what it meant to me. It is definitely not a timid read: It is a hard-hitting, straight talk and harsh analysis of the extreme dichotomy on which Western culture is constructed through looking at the writings of De Sade. Angela Carter cleverly shows the reader how the construct of absolutes in De Sade's philosophy and in the history of culture causes an immutable

I was probably disappointed by this text because I wasn't aware of what to expect before starting it. I thought it was something more fictional, story-like. I previously read Nights At The Circus and The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman and quite enjoyed both of them. What Carter offers us in The Sadeian Woman instead is an overview of the works of Marquis de Sade and the role of women (or The Woman/The Feminine) in them. She also creates some connections between Sadeian stereotypes

I have been wanting to read this book since I saw the fascinating BBC documentary on Angela Carter last year - I have read all of Carter's fiction but none of her other writing. I am not an ideal reviewer for this book, because for one thing I am male, and for another I have never read de Sade and to be honest I probably never will. Much of this book pits Carter's iconoclastic 70s feminism against Sade's 18th century libertinism, finding a surprising amount of common ground. Most of the chapters

There are some knock-out drag-out genius statements in here. Angela Carter's pen is sharp, and she pulls no punches. She uses Sade's almost, not-quite there, approximation of liberation as a means to further her own argument for freeing ourselves from dominant traditions, dichotomies, and myths.There's some brilliant analysis of voluntary sterility, which removes the woman (and her body) from the fertility-mother myth ("consolatory nonsense," Carter writes, in service of women "flattering