TY  - CHAP
AB  - Abstract The chapter explores the image of the Soviet female spy in a variety of Bond films. Representations of Soviet women in these films are as intense as they are stereotypical. Tatiana Romanova (From Russia With Love, 1963), Anya ­Amasova (The Spy Who Loved Me, 1977), Pola Ivanova (A View to a Kill, 1985), the murderous dominatrix Xenia Onatopp (GoldenEye, 1995) and ­Natalya ­Simonova (GoldenEye) embody a combination of contradictory qualities. They are tough, strong, intellectual, successful and dangerous yet also feminine, ­sexual, beautiful and exotic. The presence of the dangerous communist seductress in Bond films petered out after the end of the Soviet Union.This chapter also examines the origins of each of the stereotypes which seem to be a curious mixture of fantasy and reality of the fear and desire of the Western male gaze yet combined with elements of the Soviet ideology (for instance, the war on gender stereotypes in the Soviet Union and the heavy ideological emphasis on gender equality).
SN  - 978-1-83867-163-1, 978-1-83867-165-5/
DO  - 10.1108/978-1-83867-165-520201010
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-83867-165-520201010
AU  - Bassil-Morozow Helena
ED  - Steven Gerrard
PY  - 2020
Y1  - 2020/01/01
TI  - The Soviet Woman in Bond Films
T2  - From Blofeld to Moneypenny: Gender in James Bond
T3  - Emerald Studies in Popular Culture and Gender
PB  - Emerald Publishing Limited
SP  - 91
EP  - 101
Y2  - 2024/04/25
ER  -