Feminist tropes

Corsetry and rape in Saul Dibb’s The Duchess

Dados Bibliográficos

ID12342616
AutoresJessica Taylor (0000-0002-4897-3392, ,, autor correspondente)
Ano2016
Volume30
Fascículo3
Páginas336-346
Data de publicação2016-03-29
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoContinuum (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1030-4312 • E-ISSN: 1469-3666
EditoraTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/10304312.2016.1166563
OpenAlexW2332811643
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas26

This article seeks to investigate the deployment of feminist tropes – tropes that are used to indicate a character’s or text’s feminist credentials – in Saul Dibb’s 2008 film, The Duchess. I argue that this film is representative of a broader subgenre of postfeminist historical ‘chick flicks’, which, by privileging identifiably feminist characters, produces a version of feminism and feminist history that circulates in popular culture in particular ways. By taking as my focus the tropes of corsetry and marital rape, both of which are historical artefacts that are presumed to be resolved within a postfeminist cultural context, I explore the ways that The Duchess establishes its feminist sensibility in relation to historical modes of oppression, while simultaneously obscuring the ways that women’s bodies continue to be policed and constrained in contemporary societies

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