Busybodies, Meddlers, and Snoops

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

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Kimberly J. Dilley

Book Code: GM0330

ISBN: 0-313-30330-4

ISBN-13: 978-0-313-30330-2

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192 pages

Greenwood Press

Publication: 6/30/1998

List Price: $110.95 (UK Sterling Price: £65.00)

Availability: Out of stock

Media Type: Hardcover

Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4

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Series Title: Contributions in Women's Studies

Series Number: 166

Endorsement From P. M. Carlson
Author, Bloodstream
1992-93 President of Sisters in Crime: A writer rejoices to find a reader as intelligent as Kimberly Dilley! As women struggle to be treated fairly and to express our own important views of crime, morality, and justice in the often male-dominated mystery field, Dilley's [book] gives us a clear-eyed analysis of the cultural and economic problems and a warm appreciation of how women mystery writers are meeting the challenges.
Endorsement From Dana Stabenow
Author of the Kate Shugak, Liam Campbell and Star Svensdotter series: Dilley's literate, comprehensive, and conclusive Busybodies, Meddlers & Snoops serves up a stinging rebuttal to those who would dismiss mystery fiction by women as mere fluff.

Description: 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.

Table of Contents:

Preface
Introduction
The Mystery Novel as Mass-Market Construction
The Private Eye
The Police-Trained Detective
The Amateur Sleuth Revolution
Mysterious Women--Feminism, Femininity, Heroism, and the Ordinary
Bibliography
Index

LC Card Number: 97-45670

LCC Class: PS374

Dewey Class: 813


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