Angela Carter’s (non)fiction and the Feminist Pornography Wars
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2024
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This paper discusses three works of British author Angela Carter; The Sadeian Women, The Bloody Chamber and The Passion of New Eve and places them in the context of the feminist pornography debates. In its effort to understand the place of Angela Carter’s work in feminist debates about pornography, this Master thesis explains the role that discussion about pornography and sexuality played during the second feminist wave, framing the two main camps of anti-pornography feminists and pro-pornography feminists. By situating Carter’s The Sadeian Women in the feminist pornography debates, her work is compared to that of radical anti-pornography feminists. However, Carter’s work does more than argue in favor of pornography . By looking at The Bloody Chamber and The Passion of New Eve In conjunction with The Sadeian Women, this paper is able to construe Carter’s opinion of pornography and sexuality as nuanced and refined. In this way, it steers away from the characterization of Carter’s work as totally in line with libertarian feminism.
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