Includes bibliographical references (pages [221]-239) and index.
Contents:
Introduction: Glamorous Eye-Candy? Bond Girls Revisited -- 1. 'Bond. James Bond': Masculinity and Its Discontents -- 2. 'Dark Continents': Fashion, Foreigness and Femininity -- 3. 'Cross-Dressing': From the Field to the Boardroom -- 4. Dressed to Kill: Power, Knowledge, Desire -- Conclusion: Are Bond Girls Forever?
Summary:
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 perspective of body and fashion, this exciting study throws a new, subversive light on Bond Girls--back cover.
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