feminist crime fiction-gavin

Question 1

Has Crime fiction flourished in both male and female fiction?

Answer 1

Yes

Question 2

Has female crime writers and investigators expressing issues of female concern been an integral part from the start?

Answer 2

Yes

Question 4

name some female writers

Answer 4

agatha chrisite, dorothy L. sayers, P.D James, Sue Crafton, Patrica Cornwell

Question 5

what are these female detectives?

Answer 5

independent, confident, clever

Question 6

What do the lady detectives use for method?

Answer 6

The power of observation of domestic environments and human behavior and knowledge

Question 7

Why do lady detectives become detectives?

Answer 7

Because fate has made it nescerray or to clear the name of a male relative.

Question 8

when do the young attractive cease to sleuth?

Answer 8

when they marry.

Question 9

who have longer sleuth careers?

Answer 9

The old spinsters, widows, female investigators created by women.

Question 10

who is the first female detective?

Answer 10

Andrew Forrester’s, Mrs G (Gladden) in 1864 in the casebook “The female detective” and william Haywards “Mrs. Paschal.

Question 11

Are Mrs Paschal and Mrs G first person narrators?

Answer 11

Yes, who work for the British Police

Question 12

What influeencd the rise of female crime fiction?

Answer 12

Sensation novels of the 1860s were also infl uential in the rise of female crime fi ction.

Question 13

were sensation novels renderd innappropriate and dangerous for women to read?

Answer 13

yes

Question 14

who is the most significant writer of fictional female detection?

Answer 14

Anna Kaharine Green “The leavenworth case” (1878)

Question 15

What is 19th century detective fiction seen as?

Answer 15

conservative and conventional, with cases neatly solved and moral order restored.

Question 16

What must the detectives choose between?

Answer 16

the detectives must decide between love and detection, and both choose career (

Question 17

What do female women sleuths tend to be?

Answer 17

Fictional women sleuths up until 1940, as Kungl notes, tend to be middle class,
to confi rm class boundaries, and often use their knowledge of class differences to solve
crimes

Question 18

name a teenager sleuth?

Answer 18

Nancy Drew (Carolyn Keene)

Question 19

what did the inter war years see a rise of ?

Answer 19

The inter - war years saw the development of daring and active girl sleuths and the
rise of male hard - boiled detective fi ction in which the primary female role was femme
fatale

Question 20

What characterise the intewar years in terms of fictional detectives?

Answer 20

Women fi ctional detectives, by contrast, became older, less physically active,
and more concerned with crimes in their immediate locale.

Question 21

How are the spinsters visible to readers?

Answer 21

By portraying older women as skilled,
successful, and central to their narratives, their creators insist that these mature
women are made visible to readers.

Question 22

what can be found traces of in Jane Marple?

Answer 22

Traces of Green ’ s prototypical Amelia Butterworth can be found in these golden
age female sleuths, the most famous of whom is Agatha Christie ’ s Miss Jane Marple

Question 23

what characterises Jane Marple?

Answer 23

Distinguished by her village
geography (St Mary Mead) and pastimes – knitting, gardening, and bird - watching
– Miss Marple has moral force, intelligence, an inquisitive nature, excellent knowledge
of human behavior, and pays attention to details.

Question 24

What are golden age female detectives concerned about?

Answer 24

Golden age female detective fi ction is often concerned with human relationships,
social and cultural concerns, and women ’ s position.

Question 25

what difficulties did women face ?

Answer 25

balancing professional and private life. Fearing it may
damage her independence, V

Question 26

Why was intution rejected as a way to solve cases?

Answer 26

in part because of the
fair play rule of golden age detective fi ction that required providing the reader with
the same clues the detective has, and in part because it marginalizes female logic and
intellect

Question 27

What is the female hard boiled in response to?

Answer 27

The female hard - boiled tradition is in part a feminist response to male hard - boiled
writing, but also owes much to previous female detection.

Question 28

what were christie and saysers struggling against?

Answer 28

a woman struggling against “ Victorian ideals of womanhood

Question 29

What is the feminst desire according to Gavin?

Answer 29

Millhone enacts the feminist desire to “ blow away ” male violence towards women

Question 30

What is central to female hard-boiled?

Answer 30

Violence is also central to several female hard - boiled variants that appeared in the
late 1980s and 1990s

Question 31

Name, the first fi ctional feminist lesbian sleuth

Answer 31

Chicana detective Kat Guerrera who
appeared in M. F. Beal ’ s Angel Dance (1977).

Question 32

What is central in Kathy Reich’s novels about Temperance Brennan

Answer 32

Forensic detection

Question 33

What is the job of Temperance Brennan?

Answer 33

Forensic anthropolosgist

Question 34

where are the novels of kathy Reichs manily set?

Answer 34

Montreal and north carolina

Question 35

What is humanistic crime fiction=

Answer 35

This tradition moves away from hard - boiled, streetwise toughness and places the
detective ’ s psychology and human and social issues at its core.

Question 36

How do writers handle detecion and motherhood?

Answer 36

Detection and motherhood in fi ction still rarely
mesh, although proportionally more black female detectives than white seem to
be mothers. Nevertheless, “ [c]hildren do not come fi rst, ” are old enough “ to look
after themselves if need be ” and other people help with them when the detective
is on the case

Question 37

Is hard-boild female detectives motherhood marginalised?

Answer 37

Yes, hard - boiled female detectives motherhood is marginalized, for contemporary female
detectives it is, if not always central, at least mentioned.

Question 38

What is the central concern in detective fiction?

Answer 38

The central concern of feminist crime fi ction remains violence against women