The Sadeian Woman: And the Ideology of Pornography

by Angela Carter

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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. In a world where all tenderness is false, all beds are minefields. 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 into the viscera of our distorted sexuality and reveals a dazzling vision of love which admits neither of conqueror nor of conquered.
  • ISBN10 0140298614
  • ISBN13 9780140298611
  • Publish Date 13 June 2001 (first published 29 March 1979)
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 5 March 2013
  • Publish Country US
  • Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc
  • Imprint The Penguin Press
  • Format Paperback (US Trade)
  • Pages 154
  • Language English