How is female liberation questioned in Get Carter?

The extent of female liberation is questioned by this film. Get Carter portrays a society in which woman were not liberated, except in superficial ways. Female character are all used, owned and victimised who seek them as sex objects & little more. It is implied within the film that the contraceptive pill released in 1961 in the swinging sixties benefited men more in sexual freedom and not women due to the high level of sexualisation they go through from the white males in the film. Many critics argued that director Mike Hodges was commenting on the transition from the 'Swinging Sixties' to an economically bleak and non-liberation of females in the 1970s. 

Edna is the most liberated of all the females in the film due to her owning her own business in her own home. She has been and gone through the sixties and came out the other end as a liberated women as feminism in the 60s definitely benefited and shaped the women she went into the 1970s as. Edna owns a B&B which she runs single handedly. When entered, Carter instantly exerts control over Edna's own environment. In this scene men are being represented as the dominant gender in the 70s, they treat everyone who isn't them below them in some sort of ideological hierarchy they created themselves and that society has been forced to abide by it. Tradition gender roles are instantly put into place due to carter disregarding Edna's threat of calling the police and he the shuts her down and responds "make us a nice cup of tea." Through this line of dialogue the ideology of women belonging in the domestic area ('the kitchen') is extremely explicit. Edna in her own home is treated with disrespect and walked past. It makes he audience question why did feminist fight so hard in the sixties for the respect and equality they deserve if the men in the film are treating the women so degradingly and stoically.  MEN TREAT THE FEMALES OF THE FILM WITH DISRESPECT. Edna is an independent women as she stands on her own two feet however once a man enters her environment she is forced to adopt the domestic role.