The Sadeian Woman An Exercise in Cultural History - Virago Modern Classics

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.

ISBN:	9781844083770
Publisher:	Little, Brown
Imprint:	Virago
Published date:	05 Oct 2006
DEWEY:	843.6
DEWEY edition:	22
Language:	English
Number of pages:	181
Weight:	158g
Height:	198mm
Width:	127mm
Spine width:	13mm

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