- Sex (Psychology), Feminism and sexuality, Psychological aspects of French literature, Sex in literature
Angela Carter turns concepts and assumptions about love and sex inside out with an original examination of Sade's ideas.
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Character-led, cool, contemplative and prestige.
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- cooloverwhelming
- contemplativerelentless
- unpretentiousprestige
- gravecomic
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About the book
- Author
- Angela Carter
- First published
- 1978
- Pages
- 154
- Publisher
- Harper Colophon Books, Pantheon Books, Time Warner Books UK
- Editions
- 15
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780860680550
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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.”
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