Bond girls

Lest we think that all things have become equal, Xenia Onatopp is a direct throwback to the earlier style of Bond girl, complete with an innuendo-laden name and a blatant sexuality—a sexuality that has been taken to a perverse extreme. She is the ultimate realization of the Bond girl of the 1970s, so excessively independent that she is now Bond s enemy and simply putting-[her]-back-into-place will not do (Bennett and Wollacott, 2003 28). Still, it is Xenia who impresses upon Bond just how un-safe sex can be, as she almost kills him in their sexual encounter. 

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Fearing in Thunderbalt). They also pose beside bad Bond girls (such as Blackman, and Lnciana Paoluzzi who plays Fiona Volpa in Thunderbalt). 

Within the broader set of inter-textual relations that make up the Bond phenomenon, Beimett and Woollacott summarise the role played by photo features of this type in Playboy and other men s magazines, and the way that they look at the Bond girls ... 

These women (or, as movie reviewers dubbed them, Bond Girls ) must be saved —either physically or morally—by Bond. 

Honeychile Rider of Dr. No provides a good example of the ethnically and geographically displaced Bond girl, a figure who may reflect the waning of the British and Emopean colonial enq)ires she is from a white family of British descent that has lived in Jamaica for centuries, and after her parents die, she is raised by her Afi o-Caribbean naimy Dr. No 112-113). Similarly, Solitaire of Live and Let Die is the descendant of French colonials bom in Haiti Live and Let Die 64-65). 

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