The Sadeian Woman and the Ideology of Pornography is the American title of a 1978 non-fiction book by Angela Carter, an English writer who primarily wrote fiction novels.

She was inspired by "the Japanese experience of reading pornographic comic books alongside the works of de Sade" and wrote The Sadeian Woman in the years after she moved back to England.

[3] The Marquis de Sade, a French writer from the late 18th century, is well known for his controversial pornography, specifically his violent pornographic novels.

He found that Carter excels at both "dressing up pop art in academic gear and presenting crude aspects of modern living in a satirically elegant style."

He agrees with Carter that de Sade's pornography revealed the problems imposed on women due to "man-made stereotypes... for centuries before and since.

"[9] Her work was criticized by the radical feminist and anti-porn theorist Andrea Dworkin in her 1981 book Pornography: Men Possessing Women.