Many of these placed their feminist detective protagonists in hardboiled or noir private eye narratives, a unique and effective example of feminist counter-discourse inserted into a frequently sexist or misogynist genre. More substantial and long-lasting were the crime series appearing in the late 1970s and early 1980s, by Marcia Muller (Edwin of the Iron Shoes, 1977), Sue Grafton (A is for Alibi, 1982), Sara Paretsky (Indemnity Only, 1982) and Barbara Wilson (Murder in the Collective, 1984). James, who published a surprisingly early, slyly gender-subversive novel, An Unsuitable Job for a Woman, in 1972. Second-wave feminism found a reflection in the work of P.D. However, the Women’s Liberation Movement, as it grew of the civil rights movements and the revolutionary 1960s in both the USA and Europe, explicitly established a gender critique in many societal and cultural fields. Of course, crime fiction and crime writing have always, and inevitably so, been enmeshed with a discourse on gender: any narrative of crime and transgression unavoidably invites comparison with the behaviour and roles associated with ‘orthodox’ masculinity and femininity. As Maureen Reddy suggests, ‘eminist literary criticism, feminism as a social movement and feminist crime novels have grown up together, so to speak’ (Reddy 1990, p. Convincing them that she isn't becomes her goal.Appearing in the late 1970s, feminist crime fiction arose out of a distinctive social context, the political, social and cultural sea change brought about by the second feminist wave. He's not alone in thinking her the culprit: to Maureen's shock, both her alcoholic mum and Douglas's politician mother also think she's the killer.

With bloody footprints matching Maureen's slippers at the scene, Detective Chief Inspector Joe McEwan sets out to prove the woman's guilt. The next morning Maureen finds Brady's body in her living room, his throat cut. Bored with her job at a theater ticket office and depressed because her affair with one of the hospital's doctors, Douglas Brady, is over, Maureen and a friend get drunk. A bright, solid book 1.24 x 9.26 x 6.28 Inches 348 pages Eight months after spending almost half a year in a Glasgow psychiatric hospital devoted to treating sex abuse victims, Maureen O'Donnell is desperately trying to hold together her shattered life.

Light scuffing of DJ, light edge wear, remainder mark bottom page edges, small chip bottom back fore edge DJ in protective Mylar sleeve, unclipped.

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