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4. Questing Women: The Feminist Mystery after Feminism
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- Acknowledgments vii
- Introduction: Gender and Genre: The Woman Detective and the Diffusion of Generic Voices ix
- 1. Amelia Butterworth: The Spinster Detective 1
- 2. The Detective Heroine and the Death of Her Hero: Dorothy Sayers to P.O. James 12
- 3. Gray Areas: P.O. James’s Unsuiting of Cordelia 29
- 4. Questing Women: The Feminist Mystery after Feminism 46
- 5. From Spinster to Hipster: The 'Suitability' of Miss Marple and Anna Lee 64
- 6. Nancy Drew: The Once and Future Prom Queen 74
- 7. Feminist Murder: Amanda Cross Reinvents Womanhood 94
- 8. Murders Academic: Women Professors and the Crimes of Gender 112
- 9. Talkin’ Trash and Kickin’ Butt: Sue Grafton's Hard-boiled Feminism 127
- 10. The Female Dick and the Crisis of Heterosexuality 148
- 11. ‘Friends Is a Weak Word for It’: Female Friendship and the Spectre of Lesbianism in Sara Paretsky 157
- 12. Habeas Corpus: Feminism and Detective Fiction 171
- Contributors 191
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- Acknowledgments vii
- Introduction: Gender and Genre: The Woman Detective and the Diffusion of Generic Voices ix
- 1. Amelia Butterworth: The Spinster Detective 1
- 2. The Detective Heroine and the Death of Her Hero: Dorothy Sayers to P.O. James 12
- 3. Gray Areas: P.O. James’s Unsuiting of Cordelia 29
- 4. Questing Women: The Feminist Mystery after Feminism 46
- 5. From Spinster to Hipster: The 'Suitability' of Miss Marple and Anna Lee 64
- 6. Nancy Drew: The Once and Future Prom Queen 74
- 7. Feminist Murder: Amanda Cross Reinvents Womanhood 94
- 8. Murders Academic: Women Professors and the Crimes of Gender 112
- 9. Talkin’ Trash and Kickin’ Butt: Sue Grafton's Hard-boiled Feminism 127
- 10. The Female Dick and the Crisis of Heterosexuality 148
- 11. ‘Friends Is a Weak Word for It’: Female Friendship and the Spectre of Lesbianism in Sara Paretsky 157
- 12. Habeas Corpus: Feminism and Detective Fiction 171
- Contributors 191
