A01=Kimberly J. Dilley
Author_Kimberly J. Dilley
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- ISBN 9780313303302
- Weight: 482g
- Dimensions: 156 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 25 Jun 1998
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
Kimberly J. Dilley is a freelance writer. She has a PhD in Communications from the University of California, San Diego.
