Chicago Sexuality and Sexual Identity Quotes

As Roxie is led into the paddy wagon, this is her first clue that she can use her beauty as an asset… even in prison.

This lyric from the "Cell Block Tango" can be seen as a little "lady doth protest too much." If a woman wants to use her sexuality and be an independent sexual being, can she then claim to be an innocent "flower"? Can she have it both ways? Is that what is happening here, objectively?

Roxie isn't the only one using sex appeal. This is Velma's strategy to seduce the jury, a 1920s version of Sharon Stone crossing her legs in Basic Instinct. And Roxie steals the idea and uses it with great success.