num_pages: 154
description: 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.
language: English
title: The Sadeian Woman: An Exercise in Cultural History
titlecomplete: The Sadeian Woman: An Exercise in Cultural History
genres: Theory, Gender, Philosophy, Nonfiction, Womens, Essays, Feminism, Sexuality, History, Literary Criticism
ratings_count: 1354
publisher: Time Warner Books UK