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Feminism in Women's Detective Fiction.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Heritage SeriesPublisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1995Copyright date: ©1995Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (217 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781442623088
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Feminism in Women's Detective FictionDDC classification:
  • 823/.0872099287
LOC classification:
  • PR830.D4 F465 1995
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Gender and Genre: The Woman Detective and the Diffusion of Generic Voices -- 1 Amelia Butterworth: The Spinster Detective -- 2 The Detective Heroine and the Death of Her Hero: Dorothy Sayers to P.D. James -- 3 Gray Areas: P.D. James's Unsuiting of Cordelia -- 4 Questing Women: The Feminist Mystery after Feminism -- 5 From Spinster to Hipster: The 'Suitability' of Miss Marple and Anna Lee -- 6 Nancy Drew: The Once and Future Prom Queen -- 7 Feminist Murder: Amanda Cross Reinvents Womanhood -- 8 Murders Academic: Women Professors and the Crimes of Gender -- 9 Talkin' Trash and Kickin' Butt: Sue Grafton's Hard-boiled Feminism -- 10 The Female Dick and the Crisis of Heterosexuality -- 11 'Friends Is a Weak Word for It': Female Friendship and the Spectre of Lesbianism in Sara Paretsky -- 12 Habeas Corpus: Feminism and Detective Fiction -- Contributors.
Summary: The essays in this collection grapple with a wide range of issues important to the female sleuth - the most important, perhaps, being the oft-heard challenge to her suitability for the job.
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Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Gender and Genre: The Woman Detective and the Diffusion of Generic Voices -- 1 Amelia Butterworth: The Spinster Detective -- 2 The Detective Heroine and the Death of Her Hero: Dorothy Sayers to P.D. James -- 3 Gray Areas: P.D. James's Unsuiting of Cordelia -- 4 Questing Women: The Feminist Mystery after Feminism -- 5 From Spinster to Hipster: The 'Suitability' of Miss Marple and Anna Lee -- 6 Nancy Drew: The Once and Future Prom Queen -- 7 Feminist Murder: Amanda Cross Reinvents Womanhood -- 8 Murders Academic: Women Professors and the Crimes of Gender -- 9 Talkin' Trash and Kickin' Butt: Sue Grafton's Hard-boiled Feminism -- 10 The Female Dick and the Crisis of Heterosexuality -- 11 'Friends Is a Weak Word for It': Female Friendship and the Spectre of Lesbianism in Sara Paretsky -- 12 Habeas Corpus: Feminism and Detective Fiction -- Contributors.

The essays in this collection grapple with a wide range of issues important to the female sleuth - the most important, perhaps, being the oft-heard challenge to her suitability for the job.

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