Giovanna Maina

The symbolic overabundance of the female character finds its emblematic confirmation in the analysis of the character of Emanuelle, the protagonist of the homonymous and successful erotic films series of the 1970s. The series restates the gender standards, bringing on the scene an active woman, master of her own destiny, also offering herself to the look and pleasure of men. Emanuelle ‘virtuously’ embodies the mediation between a model of emancipated femininity and a more traditional, patriarchal one, which contemplates the submission of women to male desire.