10. The Female Dick and the Crisis of Heterosexuality

Chapters in this book

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