ABSTRACT
Angela Carter's works are an important contribution to an index of the transformations in Anglo-American feminist movements from the 1960s to the 1990s. She began her 20s thinking that Western patriarchy was a function of a child being raised in the oedipal structure that was a function of the traditional family unit. Because of Carter's early death at 52, it is difficult to see Wise Children as the final word from such an important and complex thinker. In her 1983 essay, "Anger in a Black Landscape", Carter's comments about her political contributions in a nonliterary capacity indicate that she was rather heavily involved in the early 1960s with the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND). By the end of the 1970s, Carter writings begin to reflect the view that not only was Old Adam immutable, but he might be preferable and necessary, at least in terms of not alienating women from the real world.
