The Sadeian Woman: And the Ideology of Pornography

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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 Justines triumphantly monstrous antithesis viciously exploits her sexuality. With brilliance and wit Angela Carter takes on these outrageous figments of de Sades 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.