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| The Passion of New Eve (Virago modern classics) | 
 enlarge | Author: Angela Carter
Publisher: Virago Press Ltd
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 25598
Media: Paperback
Edition: New edition
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 192
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 4.9 x 0.6
ISBN: 0860683419
Dewey Decimal Number: 305
EAN: 9780860683414
ASIN: 0860683419
Publication Date: August 27, 1992
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What it means not what it says November 21, 2002
24 out of 30 found this review helpful
Many of Angela Carter's books have their strength more in their meaning than in the story. TPONE is one of these- the plot being bitty and some of it superfluous. But the plot is not really what it is about- the idea of a mysogynistic man being turned into a woman then suffering the treatment he himself would have formally condoned is a strong premise and one which naturally throws up many questions in itself.
Essentially very deep TPONE fails where its meandering plot leads it astray. This is more of a book for Carter-holics than a goof place to start. The Magic Toyshop is a softer introduction and The Insane Desire Machines of Dr Hoffman a similar work to TPONE but a less infuriating read.
an incisive view of gender & the biology-is-destiny debate. November 19, 2000
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
The novel is throughout an exposition of the postmodern debate of gender construction as a social condition. The metamorphosis of Evelyn from that of the male gender, to a convincing depiction of female gender and identity is an interesting journey which highlights the cultural and social effects on gendering and identity. Carter provides various parodies of female/feminine and male/masculine in the opposing powers of Zero and Mother, which forces the reader to question their own perception of what constitutes male and female. One will never again conform to the stereotypical constructs of blue is for boys and pink for girls after reading Passion of New Eve and its blatent arguments for an end to gender standardizing.
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