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How To Read Literature Like A Professor, Thomas C. In her world, sex can be wildly disruptive. To call her writing women’s liberation is to largely miss her point Carter attempts to discover paths by which women can attain the standing in the world that male-dominated society has largely denied them, and in so doing she would liberate all of us, men and women alike. Carter nearly always intends to upset the patriarchal apple cart. And also like her, she almost never lets it be only about sex. Like O’Brien, Carter can write a very convincing sex scene. The queen of sexual subversiveness…must be the late Angela Carter. Interview between Gaby Wood and Neil Gaiman, The Telegraph … in order to interpret Gaiman’s taste, you need to know that Carter’s take on the tale was “The Company of Wolves”, an ornately told story in which the heroine makes a relatively late appearance in a savage, sexual world, not a small child skipping along a path but a daring pubescent girl who strips naked, laughs in the face of danger and sleeps with the wolf - rendering him post–coitally “tender” - in her dead grandmother’s bed. When I ask Gaiman who his favourite fairy tale character is, he says he fell in love with Red Riding Hood when reading Carter. Even if you’ve not heard much of Angela Carter, “The Company of Wolves” and other subversive stories have probably influenced some of your other favourite authors.