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Double O agencies: Femininity, post-feminism and the female spy in Casino Royale (2010)
Book Chapter
Tincknell, E. (2010). Double O agencies: Femininity, post-feminism and the female spy in Casino Royale. In C. Lindner (Ed.), Revisioning 007: James Bond and Casino Royale. Wallflower Press

Casino Royale was widely marketed and received as a 're-booting' of the Bond franchise, with a concomitant reinvention of the Bond girl for a post-feminist world. This essay critiques this claim, identifying important continuities between the film's... Read More about Double O agencies: Femininity, post-feminism and the female spy in Casino Royale.

Scourging the abject body: the television make-over show and the reconstruction of femininity under neoliberalism (2010)
Book Chapter
Tincknell, E. (2010). Scourging the abject body: the television make-over show and the reconstruction of femininity under neoliberalism. In R. Gill, & C. Scharff (Eds.), New Femininities: Postfeminism, Neoliberalism and Identity. Palgrave Macmillan

The television makeover show has become an important site for the discursive re-inscription of femininity as a fluid condition requiring continuous work and self-modification in order that it can be 'held together', and in which social idenity, the b... Read More about Scourging the abject body: the television make-over show and the reconstruction of femininity under neoliberalism.