270 Pages
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Routledge
270 Pages
by
Routledge
272 Pages
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Routledge
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Murder by the Book? is a thorough - and thoroughly enjoyable - look at the blossoming genre of the feminist crime novel in Britain and the United States. Sally Munt asks why the form has proved so attractive as a vehicle for oppositional politics; whether the pleasures of detective fiction can be truly transgressive; and when exactly it was that the dyke detective appeared as the new super-hero... Read more
1 MASCULINITY AND MASQUERADE OR ‘IS THAT A GUN IN YOUR POCKET?’ Mainstream women crime writers 2 THE NEW WOMAN—A SHEEP IN WOLVES’ CLOTHING? Liberal feminist crime fiction 3 A CASE OF ‘DEATH BY POLITICAL CORRECTION’? Socialist feminist crime fiction 4 ‘A CHANGE IS GONNA COME’? Race politics in crime fiction by women 5 THE INVERSTIGATORS Lesbian crime fiction 6 MURDERING THE INNER MAN? Psychoanalysis and feminist crime fiction 7 ‘WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO SING “SOMEWHERE OVER THE RAINBOW” AND RELEASE BALLOONS?’ Postmodernism and the crime fiction of Sarah Schulman 8 AN UNSUITABLE GENRE FOR A WOMAN?
Biography
Sally R.Munt is a Senior Lecturer in English and Cultural Studies at Nottingham Trent University. She is the editor of New Lesbian Criticism (Columbia/Harvester 1992) and the author of a number of articles in the areas of feminist theory, contemporary culture, and lesbian and gay studies.
