The Bloody Chamber Critics

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Vandermeer
Fairytales clothe themselves in stereotypes and archetypes
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Vandermeer
Carter's characters are forever escaping social, mental and physical traps laid by men
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Carter
I was taking the latent contents of those traditional stories; and the latent content is violently sexual
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Simpson
the heroines of these stories are struggling out of the strait jackets of history
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Makinen
They are not fearful of sex, just their sexual partners design on them
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Botting
Carter demonstrates the reversal of values that occurs in gothic literature
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Wood
The Bloody Chamber's main function is destabilising the figure of women as purely passive objects of the male gaze
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Bacchilega
The snow child is a masculine fantasy
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Bayatt
the will be justified and prosper, the evil will come to a bad end
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Carvalho
the countess suffers from the imposition of sexist social rules
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Wisker
Carter challenges gendered construction and representations of power which render women as automata, puppets and femme fatales
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Day
Carter's characters display the two competing desires for freedom and engulfment
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Werner
Women collude and connive with their own enslavement
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Carter's characters are forever escaping social, mental and physical traps laid by men

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Vandermeer

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I was taking the latent contents of those traditional stories; and the latent content is violently sexual

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the heroines of these stories are struggling out of the strait jackets of history

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They are not fearful of sex, just their sexual partners design on them

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