The Woman Detective: Gender & Genre"Real mystery fans will enjoy this survey of nearly 300 female sleuths in 100 years of British and U.S. fiction." -- Feminist Bookstore News This new edition adds sixty new female private eyes to the roster and includes an afterword that assesses the current state of the genre's new and old novels. A comprehensive bibliography and a character list update the field through mid-1994. "A highly intelligent analysis." -- Ms. "Well-researched and well-written. . . . Traces the evolution of sexist boundaries in popular detective fiction from a feminist viewpoint and documents the parallels in social history and the women's rights movement." -- Ronald C. Miller, The Armchair Detective "Identifies dozens of good novels whose titles are not well known, its promise of good reading extending well beyond its own covers." -- Jane Bakerman, Belles Lettres |
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Contents
Introduction | 1 |
British Policewomen 1864 | 15 |
Women Detectives in the American Dime Novel 18801904 | 31 |
Britains TurnoftheCentury Lady Detective 18911910 | 53 |
The Lady Detectives Yankee Cousin 190615 | 75 |
How Golden Was the Golden Age? British and American Sleuths between the Wars | 95 |
The HardBoiled Private Eye and Her Classical Competition 192863 | 122 |
Modern Detectives 197284 | 149 |
FemaleMale Partnerships 192478 | 185 |
An Unsuitable Job for a Feminist? | 200 |
Afterword to the First Edition | 223 |
Afterword to the Second Edition | 230 |
Women Private Eyes 198794 | 243 |
| 246 | |
| 273 | |
The Moderns Continue Variations on a Theme | 173 |
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| Title | The Woman Detective: Gender & Genre An Illini book |
| Author | Kathleen Gregory Klein |
| Publisher | University of Illinois Press, 1995 |
| ISBN | 0252064631, 9780252064630 |
| Length | 282 pages |
| Subjects | › › Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths |
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