Sex quote - You are the first man I was ever afraid of - And - a dreamy look came into her face - 'because I like to experience, I like to try'.
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Card 9
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Carmilla - female sexuality discussed in terms of vampirism - makes desire seem beastly
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Card 10
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Novella reveals and conceals female sexuality - 'she died in the peace of innocence... She is gone without so much as a conjecturing the nature of her illness'
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Card 11
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Tamar Heller believes the black woman in the carriage symbolises 19th century racist and sexist iconography
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Card 12
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Only time Laura sees her attacker she describes the creature as a 'sooty black creature that resembled a monstrous cat'
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Luce Irigary identified a hegemonic structure that leaves female desire ' only a choice between a sort of animality...and the imitation of male models...any interplay of desire among women's bodies, organs, and language is inconceivable.
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Card 14
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Laura - 'Her language was unintelligible to me'. Perhaps it is a 'boyish lover' in disguise?
