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THE SADEIAN WOMAN - And the Ideology of Pornography [Hardcover]

ANGELA CARTER (Author)

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Publisher: Pantheon Books; First American Edition, stated edition (1978)
ISBN-10: 0394505751
ISBN-13: 978-0394505756
ASIN: B0026QHYGO

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5.0 out of 5 stars the Sadeian Feminist, December 29, 2001

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Angela Carter (1940-1992) has written a feminist reading of the Marquis De Sade. Carter has also used the work of the Marquis as a springboard for her own insights on the relation of sexuality to power. She is able to demonstrate that sexuality is constructed not from gender but rather form a relationship between power and politics. A must-read feminist classic.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Insightful, August 26, 2001

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A very thoughtful book which puts Sade's work in a whole new light. Thoughtful, evenhanded and intelligent. This one is worth the read for anyone interested in going beyond the superficial with Sade. There is a lot of nonsensence about him -- finally, someone with something important to say!

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3.0 out of 5 stars Connisiuers of Poop, August 4, 2005

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Angela Carter, is the premier feminist, but this book wasn't quite for me. I had no idea who Marquis de Sade was until I read this book, and I slightly wish I never had. Angela Carter tries to bring life to De Sade's female characters, which she does, but I just couldn't get passed the section where she talks of the women licking men's butts and being connisiuers of poop. Really, I just wish Marquis de Sade's work would be swept under some carpet and never be read.

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Pornographers are the enemies of women only because our contemporary ideology of pornography does not encompass the possibility of change, as if we were the slaves of history and not its makers, as if sexual relations were not necessarily an expression of social relations, as if sex itself were an external fact, one as immutable as the weather, creating human practice but never a part of it. Read the first page

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Saint Fond, Madame de Mistival, Castle of Silling, Mae West, Miss Stern, French Revolution, Good Bad Girl, Rose Keller, Catherine the Great, Marilyn Monroe, Blessed Virgin, Madame de Gernande, Melanie Klein, Saint Justine, Western European

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This book cites 46 books:

Philosophy In The Boudoir (Creation Classics) by Marquis de Sade on 8 pages
Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon on page 1, and Back Matter
Three Essays On The Theory Of Sexuality (Basic Books Classics) by Sigmund Freud on page 135, and Back Matter
Envy and Gratitude (1946 - 1963) by Melanie Klein on page 131, and Back Matter
Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Choderlos De Laclos on page 33, and page 114

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One of the Guys: Women as Aggressors and Torturers by Tara McKelvey on page 135, and Back Matter
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