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Agatha Christie

Investigating Femininity

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  • © 2006

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  1. Merja Makinen
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Part of the book series: Crime Files (CF)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction

    • Merja Makinen
    Pages 1-3

  3. Preliminary Proceedings

    • Merja Makinen
    Pages 4-24

  4. Detecting Deviancy

    • Merja Makinen
    Pages 25-63

  5. Available Femininities

    • Merja Makinen
    Pages 64-114

  6. Women Behaving Badly

    • Merja Makinen
    Pages 115-134

  7. Representing Women of Violence Agatha Christie and Her Contemporary Culture

    • Merja Makinen
    Pages 135-157

  8. An Examination of Otherness, as the West Encounters the East

    • Merja Makinen
    Pages 158-181

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 182-205
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About this book

Christie's books depict women as adventurous, independent figures who renegotiate sexual relationships along more equal lines. Women are also allowed to disrupt society and yet the texts refuse to see them as double deviant because of their femininity. This book demonstrates exactly how quietly innovatory Christie was in relation to gender.

About the author

MERJA MAKINEN is Principal Lecturer in English Literary Studies, Middlesex University, UK, and former Programme Tutor for the MA in Popular Literary Fictions. She has published on feminist writing in the Twentieth-century (especially on Angela Carter and Jeanette Winterson) and on popular genre fiction, including detective and crime writing.

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