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'Sexuality is power' - so says the Marquis de Sade, philosopher and pornographer extraordinaire. His virtuous Justine keeps to the rules laid down by men, her reward rape and humiliation; his Juliette, Justine's triumphantly monstrous antithesis, viciously exploits her sexuality. But now Sade has met his match. With invention and genius, Angela Carter takes on these outrageous figments of his 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. Angela Carter delves in the viscera of our distorted sexuality and reveals a dazzling vision of love which admits neither of conqueror nor of conquered.
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The Sadeian Woman, Angela Carter
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- Released
- 1992
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- Title
- The Sadeian Woman
- Subtitle
- An Exercise in Cultural History
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Angela Carter
- Publisher
- Virago Press
- Released
- 1992
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 086068055X
- ISBN13
- 9780860680550
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, World Literature
- Original title
- The Sadeian woman
- Rating
- 3.95 out of 5
- Description
- 'Sexuality is power' - so says the Marquis de Sade, philosopher and pornographer extraordinaire. His virtuous Justine keeps to the rules laid down by men, her reward rape and humiliation; his Juliette, Justine's triumphantly monstrous antithesis, viciously exploits her sexuality. But now Sade has met his match. With invention and genius, Angela Carter takes on these outrageous figments of his 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. Angela Carter delves in the viscera of our distorted sexuality and reveals a dazzling vision of love which admits neither of conqueror nor of conquered.