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1	''The Passion of New Eve'' (1977) is a {{Dystopia}}n novel by Creator/AngelaCarter.
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3	It's about a British man, Evelyn, who is forcibly given gender-reassignment surgery by [[StrawFeminist Militant Feminists]] and made into "a New Eve". It's a feminist satire on Feminism in general, Freudianism, and all other sorts of things. Also features a Dystopic America in the process of caving in on itself.
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5	!! Tropes in ''The Passion of New Eve'':
6	* AllPsychologyIsFreudian: Mother's reverse-Oedipal philosophizing parodies Freudian psychology.
7	%%* AmazonBrigade
8	%%* ApocalypseHow
9	%%* BigApplesauce: In all the worst ways.
10	* BodyHorror: A lot of it, but the blue ribbon goes to Mother--the self-created Fertility Goddess. Her army of Amazons have each sacrificed a breast to her, which she has grafted onto herself, so she has two giant rows of tits.
11	%%* BrainwashedAndCrazy
12	%%* CloserToEarth
13	%%* DoesNotLikeMen: Parodied.
14	%%* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt
15	%%* FanDisservice: So, '''so''' much.
16	%%* {{Gonk}}: Mother.
17	* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Just when the Evelyn/Eve joke has been made one too many time, the narrator (at this point, just post-castration, "turned into my own diminutive, Eve, the [[IncrediblyLamePun shortened]] form of Evelyn") says
18	--> "Perhaps, I thought, they had utilised my tender body because they couldn't resist the horrid pun of my name, with all its teasing connotations."
19	* MarshmallowHell: This trope is inadequate to encompass Carter's description of Evelyn being [[IncrediblyLamePun sMothered]] by Mother's gargantuan mammarian underworld.
20	* MeaningfulName: Eve(lyn), Lilith, and Zero. The title-character even [[LampshadeHanging hangs a lampshade]] on [[ContrivedCoincidence how ridiculous]] it is that a man named Evelyn would be the subject of Mother's transgender transformation.
21	* NoNameGiven: Mother.
22	%%* QuintessentialBritishGentleman: Evelyn starts out as this. Sort of.
23	%%* StrawFeminist: Featured ohhhh so very prominently.
24	%%* TooDumbToLive: Evelyn. Seriously.
25	* WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief: The whole surgery, turning Evelyn into Eve in a couple months. Of course, this was written in 1977, so it might actually have been even ''more'' science-fiction back then than it is now.

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