The Sadeian Woman and the Ideology of Pornography

The Sadeian Woman and the Ideology of Pornography is the American title of a 1978 non-fiction book by Angela Carter. British publication was delayed until 1979, when the book appeared as The Sadeian Woman: An Exercise in Cultural History. The book is a feminist re-appraisal of the work of the Marquis de Sade, consisting of a collection of essays analyzing his literature, particularly the tales of sisters Juliette and Justine.^[1]

Her work was later criticized by the radical feminist and

Carter argues that Marquis de Sade was a “moral pornographer”, one that analyzed the relation between the sexes within his work.[4] She argues that Marquis “would not be the enemy of women”, as she views his works as contradicting patriarchal notions of sex and feminity.^[4]

The Marquis de Sade’s pornography went on to influence Carter’s fictional work. In her collection of short stories published the next year, The Bloody Chamber, the opening story follows a young, unnamed French woman who is groomed into sex and, subsequently, marriage by the scopophiliac Marquis.^[5]

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