Working Girls

Gender and Sexuality in Popular Cinema

By: Yvonne Tasker

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Hardcover | 9 April 1998 | Edition Number 1

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How has the new Hollywood' responded to the new woman'? Working Girls investigates contemporary cinema's ambivalent and complex relationship with gender and sexual dentities in the wake of feminism. Tasker addresses the versions of the working woman offered by contemporary Hollywood: spunky' heroines of action movies such as True Lies and The Long Kiss Goodnight ; female cops and FBI agents, in The Silence of the Lambs, Blue Steel and Copycat , the singer as movie-star, as typified by Barbra Streisand and Whitney Houston, and sharp-shooting cowgirls in new Westerns' such as Bad Girls and The Quick and the Dead . She also discusses the increasing prominence of women as producers and directors as well as stars and performers. In investigating Hollywood's depictions of working girls', Yvonne Tasker suggests that popular cinema makes a ready equation between working women and sexual performance, from the figure of the prostitute in films such as Klute and Pretty Woman , to modern femmes fatale such as Linda Fiorentino in The Last Seduction and Demi Moore in Disclosure

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"[Tasker's] insights are brilliant and compelling. She demonstrates conclusively that, although roles for women are still not plentiful, their representations are far more proactive than before the era of feminism. Another strength of the book is the writing: Tasker's style is accessible and elegant. This book is hard to put down. This reviewer finished it with a long list of films and shows to watch or rewatch. A must for every academic and public library."-"Choice, 3/99

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