Murdering Miss Marple essays on gender and sexuality in the new golden age of women's crime fiction
Nancy Drew vs. Nancy Clue: girl sleuths discover their sexualities -- Long ago, in places far away: gender subversion in detective fiction period pieces -- Genre vs. gender, sexuality, race, and class -- Language and gender, narrative and sexuality: rhetorics of identity and desire -- (De)constructe...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Jefferson, NC u.a.
McFarland
2012
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Nancy Drew vs. Nancy Clue: girl sleuths discover their sexualities -- Long ago, in places far away: gender subversion in detective fiction period pieces -- Genre vs. gender, sexuality, race, and class -- Language and gender, narrative and sexuality: rhetorics of identity and desire -- (De)constructed body and sexual psychopathy: serial killing of gender binaries. "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 |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index. - Nancy Drew vs. Nancy Clue: girl sleuths discover their sexualities -- Long ago, in places far away: gender subversion in detective fiction period pieces -- Genre vs. gender, sexuality, race, and class -- Language and gender, narrative and sexuality: rhetorics of identity and desire -- (De)constructed body and sexual psychopathy: serial killing of gender binaries |
| Beschreibung: | VIII, 236 S. 23 cm |
| ISBN: | 0786463317 0-7864-6331-7 9780786463312 978-0-7864-6331-2 |