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Busybodies, Meddlers, and Snoops: The Female Hero in Contemporary Women's Mysteries

Busybodies, Meddlers, and Snoops: The Female Hero in Contemporary Women's Mysteries

Dilley, Kimberly J.

Hardcover

Series: Contributions in Women's Studies, Book 166

Literary CriticismGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0313303304
ISBN13: 9780313303302
Publisher: Praeger
Published: Jun 25 1998
Pages: 192
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.77 Width: 6.38 Depth: 9.56
Language: English
Although the mystery novel has been popular with women readers since the 19th century, until the late 1970s, fictional women detectives typically were portrayed as stereotypic and passive, and often overlooked by critics. Over the last two decades, however, women mystery writers have begun creating a new type of hero: the modern female detective--an independent, intelligent, witty, and compassionate woman who can take care of herself. This volume analyzes the new female serial detectives and highlights their struggles with femininity and feminism in the everyday and the way they have profoundly altered the genre's standard plotting and characterization.

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