Violent Femmes - Women As Spies in Popular Culture

Informationen zum Autor Rosie White is Senior Lecturer in English at Northumbria University. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Product details

• Authors: Rosie White, White Rosie
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.10.2007
• EAN: 9780415370776
• ISBN: 978-0-415-37077-6
• No. of pages: 166
• Series: Transformations
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; History, Media Studies, Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, Humanities, Legal aspects of criminology, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, Causes & Prevention Of Crime, Causes and prevention of crime, Criminology: legal aspects