Bond Girls: Body, Fashion and Gender

by Monica Germanà

Book Overview

Since Ursula Andress's white-bikini debut in Dr No, 'Bond Girls' have been simultaneously celebrated as fashion icons and dismissed as 'eye-candy'. But the visual glamour of the women of James Bond reveals more than the sexual objectification of female beauty. Through the original joint perspectives of body and fashion, this exciting study throws a new, subversive light on Bond Girls. Like Coco Chanel, fashion's 'eternal' mademoiselle,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0857855328
• ISBN13: 9780857855329
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"