TY  - BOOK
AU  - Irons,Glenwood
TI  - Feminism in Women's Detective Fiction
T2  - Heritage Series
SN  - 9781442623088
AV  - PR830.D4 F465 1995 
U1  - 823/.0872099287 
PY  - 1995///
CY  - Toronto
PB  - University of Toronto Press
KW  - Detective and mystery stories, English-History and criticism
KW  - Detective and mystery stories, American-History and criticism
KW  - Feminism and literature-English-speaking countries-History-20th century
KW  - Women and literature |zEnglish-speaking countries |xHistory|y20th century-English-speaking countries-History-20th century
KW  - American fiction-Women authors-History and criticism
KW  - English fiction-Women authors-History and criticism
KW  - Feminist fiction, American-History and criticism
KW  - Feminist fiction, English-History and criticism
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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