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Feminism in Women's Detective Fiction
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1995
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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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Irons Glenwood :
Glenwood Irons is associate professor and Chair of the Department of Applied Language Studies, Brock University.
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction: Gender and Genre: The Woman Detective and the Diffusion of Generic Voices
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1. Amelia Butterworth: The Spinster Detective
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2. The Detective Heroine and the Death of Her Hero: Dorothy Sayers to P.O. James
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3. Gray Areas: P.O. James’s Unsuiting of Cordelia
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4. Questing Women: The Feminist Mystery after Feminism
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5. From Spinster to Hipster: The 'Suitability' of Miss Marple and Anna Lee
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6. Nancy Drew: The Once and Future Prom Queen
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7. Feminist Murder: Amanda Cross Reinvents Womanhood
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8. Murders Academic: Women Professors and the Crimes of Gender
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9. Talkin’ Trash and Kickin’ Butt: Sue Grafton's Hard-boiled Feminism
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10. The Female Dick and the Crisis of Heterosexuality
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11. ‘Friends Is a Weak Word for It’: Female Friendship and the Spectre of Lesbianism in Sara Paretsky
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12. Habeas Corpus: Feminism and Detective Fiction
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December 15, 1995
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College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;
