| Description |
viii, 236 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Re-Imagining Gender and Sexuality in Women's Crime Fiction / JULIE H. KIM -- Nancy Drew vs. Nancy Clue: Girl Sleuths Discover Their Sexualities. 1. Configuring Space and Sexuality : Nancy Drew Enters The Bluebeard Room / MICHAEL G. CORNELIUS ; 2. Not-So-Nice, Indeed: Mabel Maney, Girl Detectives, and Sexual Awakenings / JENNIFER MITCHELL -- Long Ago, in Places Far Away: Gender Subversion in Detective Fiction Period Pieces. 3. Repopulating the Margins: Rhys Bowen's Treatment of Gender, History, and Power / KELLEY WEZNER ; 4. Assuming Identities: Strategies of Drag in Laurie R. King's Mary Russell Series / MEGAN HOFFMAN -- Genre vs. Gender, Sexuality, Race, and Class. 5. Genre-Bending in Neely's Blanche White Series: Testing the Limits of Crime Fiction / BETSY YOUNG ; 6. "W" Is for Woman: Deconstructing the Private Dick in Sue Grafton's Alphabet Series / HEATH A. DIEHL -- Language and Gender, Narrative and Sexuality: Rhetorics of Identity and Desire. 7. Melancholia, Narrative Objectivity and the Eyewitness: The Role of the Narrator in Barbara Vine's A Dark-Adapted Eye and The Minotaur / ANDREW HOCK SOON NG ; 8. Postfeminism(s) and Authority in Contemporary Glasgow Police Procedurals / PETER CLANDFIELD -- (De)constructed Body and Sexual Psychopathy: Serial Killing of Gender Binaries. 9. Beyond Gender and Sexuality: The Serial Killers of Val McDermid / NEIL MCCAW ; 10. Neither Victim nor Vixen: Reading the Female Detective's Receding Body and Textual Violence / WINTER S. ELLIOTT. |
| Summary |
"The 10 essays in this collection explore issues of gender and sexuality by women from 1985 to 2011, surveying works about girl sleuths, parodies, hard-boiled detective fiction, police procedurals, and recent serial killer series. This volume demonstrates how popular women writers of the last three decades have reconceptualized what it means to be a female detective"--Provided by publisher. |
| Subject |
Detective and mystery stories, English -- History and criticism.
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Detective and mystery stories, English. |
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Women and literature -- English-speaking countries.
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Women and literature. |
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English-speaking countries. |
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Gender identity in literature.
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Gender identity in literature. |
| Added Author |
Kim, Julie H.
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| ISBN |
9780786463312 softcover alkaline paper |
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0786463317 softcover alkaline paper |
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