Bond girls : body, fashion and gender
Monica Germanà (Author)
"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, these 'Girls' are synonymous with an unconventional and dynamic femininity that does not play by the rules and refuses to sit still; far from being the passive objects of the male gaze, Bond Girls' active bodies instead disrupt the stable frame of Bond's voyeurism"-- Provided by publisher
Criticism, interpretation, etc
1 online resource
9781350124707, 1350124702
1109843016
James Bond timeline
Introduction: glamorous eye-candy? Bond girls revisited
'Bond. James Bond': masculinity and its discontents
'Dark Continents': fashion, foreignness and feminity
'Cross-dressing': from the field to the boardroom
Dressed to kill: power, knowledge, desire
Conclusion: are Bond girls forever?
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