A review by erboe501
The Passion of New Eve by Angela Carter

4.0

I read this for a seminar in which we explored women's remaking of myths and how that affects our identities. This is a very, very bizarre and uncomfortable book, but characteristic of Carter. Violence and rape are part and parcel of this apocalyptic America. And one group of women undertakes to create a new Eve to renew the world by forcing a sex change on the protagonist. Gender and sex don't really match up here; performance of gender is separate from biology.

Somehow, there's humor in here, again typical Carter.