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Sex on the Beach: What 80s Bikini Comedies Tell Us About Gender and Class

By Greta Parry, PopMatters. Posted September 25, 2008.


Though 1980s beach films seem objectifying and antifeminist, they offer a utopian space where class and gender hierarchies begin to dissolve.
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Greta Parry currently works as a subeditor for Metro magazine in Australia.


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