Violent Femmes: Women as Spies in Popular Culture (Transformations)

by RosieWhite (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2007

  $67.75

  The female spy has long exerted a strong grip on the popular imagination. With reference to popular fiction, film and television, this work examines the figure of the female spy as a nexus of contradictory ideas about femininity, power, sexuality and national identity. It is also useful for courses such as Film and Television Studies.