The Marquis de Sade as feminist icon? Angela Carter's surprising take on a notorious writer

British writer Angela Carter was a creative trailblazer. And in 1979, she published a book attempting the near impossible, claiming Sade –pornographer and literary bad boy – as a proto-feminist.

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