Rosie White

Violent Femmes (eBook, ePUB)

Women as Spies in Popular Culture

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The female spy has long exerted a strong grip on the popular imagination. This study proposes that the figure of the female spy constitutes a nexus of contradictory ideas about femininity, power, and sexuality in British and American culture.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. November 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134198061
• Artikelnr.: 38254402

Autorenporträt

Rosie White is Senior Lecturer in English at Northumbria University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Spies, Lies and Sexual Outlaws: Male Spies in Popular
Fiction 2. Femmes Fatale and British Grit: Women Spies in the First and
Second World Wars 3. Dolly Birds: Female Spies in the 1960s 4. English
Roses and All-American Girls: The New Avengers and The Bionic Woman 5.
Nikita: From French Cinema to American Television 6. Alias: Quality
Television and the Working Woman