Body politics in Angela Carter's works

This dissertation scrutinises body politics in Angela Carter's works with an approach to gender studies and politics, and it argues demythologised representations of women. This dissertation argues that androcentric system's subversive panorama for women is able to be critiqued through demythologisation. On this basis, this study will explore body politics of female stereotypes in Carter's works entitled: The Heroes and Villains, The Sadeian Woman, The Passion of New Eve and selected rewritten, intertextual stories in The Bloody Chamber. This study thus aims to discuss demythologising and dephilosophising processes of Carter to show the female body empowerment. In this study, there will also be the theoretical framework built on gender and body politics. Apart from that, this study also explores the textual, intertextual and tactical strategies employed by Carter in order to subvert, demythologise and revise the patriarchal ideology in her works and re-written fairy tales and short stories to come up with the new female body politics.