Violent Femmes: Women as Spies in Popular Culture

by Rosie White

Book Overview

The female spy has long exerted a strong grip on the popular imagination. With reference to popular fiction, film and television Violent Femmes examines the figure of the female spy as a nexus of contradictory ideas about femininity, power, sexuality and national identity. Fictional representations of women as spies have recurrently traced the dynamic of women's changing roles in British and American culture. Employing the central trope of women...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415370779
• ISBN13: 9780415370776
• Release Date: October 2007
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 166 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"