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Jun 2023

1h 16m

The Last Seduction, Disclosure, & Fear o...

Karina Longworth

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The 90s were obsessed with what magazine writer Tad Friend would describe as “do me feminism” – and the attendant fear that men could be victims of female sexual aggression. Two films from 1994 married these anxieties to the still-lingering bugaboo of the 80s, the powerful career woman. But though the female stars of The Last Seduction and Disclosure (Linda ... Show More

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