The woman detective: gender & genre

Kathleen Gregory Klein traces female paid, professional private investigators in British, Canadian, and American novels, revealing that the detective novel is both a reflection of and potential barrier to social change for women. This edition adds sixty new female private eyes to the roster and incl...

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Main Author: Klein, Kathleen Gregory (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Urbana [u.a.] Univ. of Illinois Press 1995
Edition:2. ed.
Series:An Illini book
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Summary:Kathleen Gregory Klein traces female paid, professional private investigators in British, Canadian, and American novels, revealing that the detective novel is both a reflection of and potential barrier to social change for women. This 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.
Physical Description:X, 282 S.
ISBN:0252064631

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