The Bloody Chamber-Angela Carter

The title of the text:

• The title is deliberately uncomfortable- woman's womb.
• References history- producing children is all women are reduced to.
• Wants women to regain control by defining themselves and their roles.

TBC is a post modernist feminist gothic text

• Description of men- predatory/powerful.

Rewriting of classic Gothic tales

• Gothic readings of traditional folk and fairy tales.
• Ration vs. irrational- gender is irrational and Carter is challenging this.

Feminist Gothic

• Patriarchy: a social system that is organised to award prestige and power to men
• Carter: 'social fiction of femininity'- fairy tales told when we are children

'Demythologising business'

• Carter wants to be shocking to shake people out of their complacency.
• Post modernism- uncertainty, plurality and multiplicity
• 'One is not a woman but becomes one'