00000nam 2200000 4500 INLIS000000000002966 20221112014957 0010-0520002966 221112################|##########|#eng## 9780415370783 eng 791.436 791.436 WHI v White, Rosie Violent Femmes : Women as Spies in Popular Culture / Rosie White London : Routledge, 2007 ix, 166p. : : illus. ; 24 cm. Indeks : p.163 - 166 p.151 - 162 This book is concerned with how the fictional female spy-protagonist reflects upon such modern and postmodern unease, particularly at those moments marked by changes in gender roles. The examination of women spies in a variety of media across the twentieth and into the twenty-first century thus maps the construction and reconstruction of femininity as a shifting, multiple discourse. Women as spies in popular culture are read as commentaries on spesific temporal and cultural femininisties, from Mata Hari to Sydney Bristow, aligning them with other indicators of cultural anxiety about femininity, such as the femme fatale and the New Women. It examine women spies and spy fiction as complex and contradictory accounts of the modern and postmodern West. Women as spies in fiction, film and television map shifts in the politics of gender across the twentieth century and into the twenty-first, disturbing the equilibrium of popular culture. Women Spies in Motion Pictures Spies in Literature 10550/MKRI-P/XI-2008 10551/MKRI-P/XI-2008 10551/MKRI-P/XI-2008 10550/MKRI-P/XI-2008 10550/MKRI-P/XI-2008 10551/MKRI-P/XI-2008