Gender and Representation in British 'Golden Age' Crime Fiction.

Intro -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Change and Anxiety: Historical Context -- Women's Education -- Careers and the Workplace -- Marriage and Motherhood -- Birth Control -- The Cult of Domesticity -- Spinsters -- Homosexuality -- Chapter 3: 'Everybody Needs an Outlet': Nonconforming Women -- Nonconforming Women as Detectives: Miss Climpson -- Nonconforming Women as Detectives: Miss Silver -- Nonconforming Women as Detectives: Miss Marple -- Nonconforming Women as Detectives: Mrs Bradley -- Nonconforming Women as Victims and Villains: Overture to Death and Murder is Easy -- Strong Poison: The Vilified Victim -- Chapter 4: A Joint Venture?: Love, Partnership and Marriage -- 'Treat'em rough?': Courtship in Artists in Crime and Death in a White Tie -- Partner, Interrupted: Representing Companionate Relationships in the Work of Margery Allingham and Dorothy L. Sayers -- 'Happily Ever Afterwards': Agatha Christie's Tommy and Tuppence -- Chapter 5: Ladies of a Modern World: Education and Work -- 'In Her Own Place': Successful Communities of Women in Gaudy Night and St Peter's Finger -- Quite Normal?: Stereotypes and Sexuality in Miss Pym Disposes and Laurels Are Poison -- 'A Most "Natural" Reaction': Personal and Professional Conflict in The Fashion in Shrouds and Death in High Heels -- Chapter 6: Sensational Bodies: Villains and Victims -- 'Not an Ordinary Murderess': The Killer's Body in Lord Edgware Dies, Unnatural Death, Dumb Witness and Peril at End House -- 'Erased from the Page': The Victim's Body in Speedy Death, The Body in the Library and Evil Under the Sun -- Chapter 7: Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.

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