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The Sadeian Woman: An Exercise in Cultural History (Paperback)
$13.99 - Save $1.89 (11%) - RRP $15.88 Free delivery worldwide (to United States and
all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 24 hours | |Short Description for The Sadeian Woman* Angela Carter's highly acclaimed polemic enlisting the Marquis de Sade in an argument about women's sexual freedom
Full description- Publisher: Virago Press Ltd
- Published: 05 October 2006
- Format: Paperback 192 pages
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- Categories: Literary Studies: General | Contemporary Fiction | Feminism & Feminist Theory | Ethical Issues: Pornography & Obscenity | Gender Studies: Women | Psychology | Sex & Sexuality, Sex Manuals
- ISBN 13: 9781844083770 ISBN 10: 1844083772
- Sales rank: 67,870
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Full description for The Sadeian Woman
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.
