the bloody chamber

ray cluley

third person narrative voice distances the reader, makes them a helpless witness powerless to stop the events happening

soman chainani

snow child: deconstructs fairy tale and pronographic archetypes simultaeneously by connecting them to the same source

edith rogers

clothing establishes power and identity, with its loss comes the loss of dignity, status, and the self.

germaine greer

nuclear family sexually represses women, rendering them eunuchs. mirrored the situation of caged birds to married women.

mary wollstonecraft

'women are a feathered race, nothing to do but plume themselves, and stalk with mock-majesty from perch to perch

bidisha

story of a young womean who rewrites her entrapment and sexual assault as a glorious rite in which she ‘never flinched’

merja makinen

the girl refuses the victim role and so can improvise a new resourceful role … refuse the predator prey dichotomy

patricia duncker

folk tales are too implicated in the patriarchal ideologies of femininity and sexuality to be subversive through being ‘carriers of ideology’

margaret atwood

lambhood and tigrishness may be found in either gender, and in the same individual at different times

angela carter

folk/fairy tales had been hijacked by patriarchal society so their moral message encouraged women to take on a traditional subservient role within a male-led society. whoever edits these tales wields a cetrtain kind of power over the society of which they are part

andrew green

masks represent a boundary/barrier - naturally representing an attempt to cover up, protect, or deceive.

angela carter

putting new wine in old bottles, especially if the pressure of the new wine makes the old bottles explode

andrea dworkin

the use of pornographic imagery makes angela carter a pseudofeminist and that pornographers are the enemies of women only because our contemporary ideology of pornography does not encompass the possibility of change

rebecca elise-smith

carter wanted to destabilise the figure of women as purely passive objects for the male gaze