Journal of Northeastern University(Social Science) ›› 2016, Vol. 18 ›› Issue (5): 537-544.DOI: 10.15936/j.cnki.1008-3758.2016.05.015

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Return to the Body: On Body Politics of The Sadeian Woman

CHENG Yi   

  1. (School of Liberal Arts, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China)
  • Received:2016-03-17 Revised:2016-03-17 Online:2016-09-25 Published:2016-09-22
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Abstract: The Sadeian Woman is a theoretical text of Angela Carter who discuss the condition of female’s body practice systematically. In this book, Carter reveals female’s body dilemma and explores the right body practice scheme by rereading the works of Sade. She points out that the female’s body is just a conceptual body which has always been constructed and restrained by religion, ethics, and gender for a long time. Carter considers that the female should become the Sadeian woman who could disrupt the traditional body system, construct performing body mode, subvert mother authority and achieve body autonomy in order to transform the conceptual body into experiential body, and return the real and natural state, and escape from the barrier of gender repression and mind colonialisation.

Key words: Angela Carter, The Sadeian Woman, body politics

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