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.
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.
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