TY - BOOK ID - 128351274 TI - Violent femmes PY - 2007 SN - 9780415370776 9780415370783 0415370779 0415370787 0203030575 9780203030578 9786611062637 6611062637 9781134198078 1134198078 9781134198023 1134198027 9781134198061 113419806X 1281062634 PB - London New York Routledge DB - UniCat KW - Spies in literature. KW - Women spies in literature. KW - Women spies in motion pictures. KW - Women spies on television. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:128351274 AB - 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 who work as spies, Rosie White examines cultural shifts during the twentieth century regarding the role of women in the professional workp ER -