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The Sadeian Woman

An Exercise in Cultural History

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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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Título
The Sadeian Woman
Subtítulo
An Exercise in Cultural History
Idioma
Inglés
Editorial
Virago Press
Publicado en
1992
Formato
Tapa blanda
ISBN10
086068055X
ISBN13
9780860680550
Serie
Título original
The Sadeian woman
Calificación
3,95 de 5
Descripción
'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.