WOMEN ARE TROUBLE, DID YOU KNOW THAT FERGUS - JORDAN,NEIL THE CRYING GAME

The subject of this article is Neil Jordan's film The Crying Game. Rel eased in 1992, it was widely received as a film that challenged stereo types in relation to both the IRA and questions of race, sexuality and desire. This article calls into question such a radical reading by an alysing the way in which Jude the IRA woman is represented. Through a feminist deconstruction, the article proposes that the character of Ju de can be seen to represent both national and international anxieties concerning contemporary masculine and feminine subject positions. The article plots this by investigating how the film deals with the specif ics of gender and Irish nationalism. It then moves on to consider how these specifics can be seen to articulate international postmodern con cerns about contemporary gender identities.