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Violent femmes : women as spies in popular culture /
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.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2007.
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| Colección: | Transformations.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Spies, lies and sexual outlaws: Male spies in popular fiction; 2 Femmes fatales 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; Notes; Bibliography; Index.