The Marquis de Sade as feminist icon? Angela Carter’s surprising take on a notorious writer
- Written by Alexander Howard, Senior Lecturer, Discipline of English and Writing, University of Sydney
The Conversation, CC BY-SAIn our feminist classics series, we look at influential books.
Social constructs and questions of control are preoccupations the late British writer Angela Carter returns to time and time again. This is especially true of the inflammatory piece of feminist non-fiction Carter published in 1979: The Sadeian Woman: And the...
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