Angela Carter
Paperback | Pages: 154 pages Rating: 4.02 | 1087 Users | 76 Reviews
Details About Books The Sadeian Woman
| Title | : | The Sadeian Woman |
| Author | : | Angela Carter |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 154 pages |
| Published | : | February 12th 1988 by Pantheon (first published 1978) |
| Categories | : | Nonfiction. Feminism. Philosophy. Writing. Essays. Sexuality. Criticism. Literary Criticism |
Description Toward Books The Sadeian Woman
Sexuality is power. So says the Marquis de Sade, philosopher and pornographer. His virtuous Justine, who keeps to the rules, is rewarded with rape and humiliation; his Juliette, Justine's triumphantly monstrous antithesis, viciously exploits her sexuality.With brilliance and wit, Angela Carter takes on these outrageous figments of de Sade's 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.
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| Original Title: | The Sadeian Woman: And the Ideology of Pornography |
| ISBN: | 0394758935 (ISBN13: 9780394758930) |
| Edition Language: | English |
Rating About Books The Sadeian Woman
Ratings: 4.02 From 1087 Users | 76 ReviewsWrite Up About Books The Sadeian Woman
Fucked up and read the criticism first. I don't disagree with her but.. ehhhhpreface is really good and interesting, but I was less interested in and convinced by the later chapters (and also a bit bored to be honest - surprisingly so, considering the enormous amount of weird sex stuff that happened).
You need strong nerves and dispassion to read this one. I wouldn't have been able to manage it a few years ago but found myself appreciating and devouring it now. It reveals a great deal about the discourse that goes into "making" women what they are. I especially loved Carter's psychoanalysis and feminist deconstruction of Sade's women and the things that set him apart from other men writing at the time.
I was probably disappointed by this text because I wasn't aware of what to expect before starting it. I thought it was something more fictional, story-like. I previously read Nights At The Circus and The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman and quite enjoyed both of them. What Carter offers us in The Sadeian Woman instead is an overview of the works of Marquis de Sade and the role of women (or The Woman/The Feminine) in them. She also creates some connections between Sadeian stereotypes
I'm not familiar with Sade's work, but it never felt necessary as Carter was good about explaining what happened in the fiction and how it related to the philosophy she's was trying to describe. For the uninitiated, Sade was a viciously perverse noble to whom we get 'sadist' from, and he wrote fiction depicting pornography that would still shock people to this day (unless you're a hopelessly deviant internet user, in which case it's not that shocking). Many other reviewers have said it better
This book of critical essays about de Sades writing from a feminist point of view starts off extremely strong with Polemical Preface: Pornography in the service of women which offers such provocative ideas as revolutionary pornographers, and that romantic notions of mother goddesses are a mystification of womens actual situation in the world (and thus keep us from an honest analysis that might lead to liberation). The next two essays analyze the diptych works of Justine and Juliette and offer
There are some knock-out drag-out genius statements in here. Angela Carter's pen is sharp, and she pulls no punches. She uses Sade's almost, not-quite there, approximation of liberation as a means to further her own argument for freeing ourselves from dominant traditions, dichotomies, and myths.There's some brilliant analysis of voluntary sterility, which removes the woman (and her body) from the fertility-mother myth ("consolatory nonsense," Carter writes, in service of women "flattering
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