The Bloody Chamber Context

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1961
The oral contraceptive pill was made avaiable on the NHS, however it was only available to married women
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Germaine Greer (1970)
Germaine Greer wrote 'The Female ******', arguing that patriarchy has supressed women's sexuality. Carter was likely to have been influenced by this
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Contraceptive Pill
With the invention of the contraceptive pill, it was believed that women would become more sexually promiscious and the moral code of the nation would be destroyed
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Marquis de Sade
From de Sade’s sexual fantasies Carter noted the lesson that passivity in a heroine was not merely undesirable, it was also likely to result in her death
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Second Wave Feminism- 1970s
The second wave of feminism was characterised by sexual liberation and the systematic sexism that contained women within the domestic sphere
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The Male Gaze- Laura Mulvey (1975)
Laura Mulvey coined the term 'male gaze' to discuss how media portrayals obectify women and hugely centre around the sexual pleasure of the heterosexual man
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Germaine Greer wrote 'The Female ******', arguing that patriarchy has supressed women's sexuality. Carter was likely to have been influenced by this

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Germaine Greer (1970)

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With the invention of the contraceptive pill, it was believed that women would become more sexually promiscious and the moral code of the nation would be destroyed

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From de Sade’s sexual fantasies Carter noted the lesson that passivity in a heroine was not merely undesirable, it was also likely to result in her death

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The second wave of feminism was characterised by sexual liberation and the systematic sexism that contained women within the domestic sphere

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