Feminist Hard-Boiled Detective Fiction as Political Protest in the Tradition of Women Proletarian Writers of the 1930s

Contemporary feminist hard-boiled detective fiction has been studied as an adaptation of the traditional masculine hard-boiled detective genre. Writers such as Sara Paretsky, Sue Grafton, and Marcia Muller create compelling feminist protagonists to fill the role of detective. The successes and fail...

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Main Author: Ng, Laura Ellen
Other Authors: John May
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: LSU 2005
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Online Access:http://etd.lsu.edu/docs/available/etd-04112005-105420/