false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173351812m/276751.jpg 276751 9 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.<br><br>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. 520459 1978 The Sadeian Woman: And the Ideology of Pornography total:143|5:40|4:47|3:48|2:6|1:2| 143 546 271 14 5 6 false false Wed May 21 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat May 26 01:33:37 -0700 2007 Sun Mar 01 22:37:53 -0800 2009
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It’s like when you’ve got people like Angela Carter who, in her book The Sadeian Women, she admitted that there was the possibility she could imagine a form of pornography that was benign, that was imaginative, was beautiful, and which didn’t have the problems that ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Nov 17 20:59:58 -0800 2008 Mon Nov 17 21:03:17 -0800 2008 1 more...]]> 0 0 false false Mon Nov 23 20:58:38 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 23 20:58:38 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Mon Mar 02 10:21:28 -0800 2009 Mon Mar 02 10:21:46 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Thu May 07 14:22:56 -0700 2009 Thu May 07 14:23:36 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Thu Feb 14 11:39:58 -0800 2008 Wed May 21 06:52:21 -0700 2008 ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1985 Mon Jul 16 19:25:54 -0700 2007 Mon Jul 16 19:33:41 -0700 2007 Love the polemical preface to this book! While The Sadeian Woman (originally published in 1979) may be something of a historical text these days, it's still a bracing read. Carter deconstructs the silly Ur-goddess myths of feminism with verve, glee and intelligence. You don't need to be a post-moder...more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Dec 31 12:47:13 -0800 2007 Mon Dec 31 12:50:34 -0800 2007 5 0 false false Thu Jun 12 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Jun 10 17:39:54 -0700 2008 Thu Jun 12 14:23:24 -0700 2008 5 stars just for the chapter on Justine and her legacy, which is a tour de force. the rest, i'd say 4 stars. overall, just a terrific book - angela carter is an amazing writer of fiction and nonfiction.]]> 3 0 false false Thu Dec 27 18:01:37 -0800 2007 Thu Dec 27 18:10:32 -0800 2007 3 0 false false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Feb 29 07:03:44 -0800 2008 Mon Mar 03 05:21:04 -0800 2008 4 0 false false Wed May 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Dec 19 20:08:14 -0800 2008 Wed May 06 07:22:50 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Tue Feb 26 17:33:32 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 26 17:34:11 -0800 2008 3 0 false false Tue Nov 17 14:58:00 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 17 14:58:00 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Fri Nov 13 09:50:24 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 13 09:50:24 -0800 2009 2 0 false false Fri Nov 06 11:09:31 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 06 11:09:31 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Tue Nov 03 11:08:31 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 03 11:08:31 -0800 2009 3 0 false false Tue Nov 03 00:24:37 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 03 00:24:37 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Mon Nov 02 17:00:50 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 02 17:00:50 -0800 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=276751