Join me (virtually) on February 26 for The Women of James Bond: Femmes Fatale, Toads, and Birds with Wings Down by Deborah Lipp – The Last Tuesday Society.
The world of James Bond extends from 1953 to 2022 and beyond. Agent 007 is known as a hero, a womanizer, and (to quote M), a “sexist, misogynist dinosaur.”
How were women portrayed in the Ian Fleming novels, and how did that change in the films? Have “Bond girls” been objects or fully-fleshed humans? What tropes are familiar in Bond’s women? How have these portrayals changed with the times, and how have they failed to change?
