I've found this book useful for gender & film noir:
 
Krutnik, Frank.  In a Lonely Street:  Film Noir, Genre, Masculinity.  NY:=
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Routledge, 1991.
 
I'm sure several people will suggest this one:
 
Clover, Carol J.  Men, Women, and Chainsaws:  Gender in the Modern Horror
Film.  Princeton:  Princeton UP, 1992.
 
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