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By placing the females into their McGill postcard ‘types’, Gerrard offers up the idea that the women in the Carry On canon are both reflective and break away from these ‘types’. His analysis of Barbara Windsor’s performances as Agent Honeybutt in Carry On Spying and Nurse Sandra May in Carry On Doctor, and Hattie Jacques’ role as Miss Haggerd in Carry On Camping shows that these exemplary actors were both typecast and fighting against type. The 1960s was an era of a newfound feminism, and Gerrard discusses how these two actors, plus an overview of Joan Sims’ character trajectory across the entire series, reflect that ideology.
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Gerrard, S. (2016). Hottentots and Harridans: The Carry On Women. In: The Carry On Films. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-52005-0_6
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