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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"female detective"”.
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“Petticoated police,” “intimate watching” and private agency(ies): reading the female detective of Fin-de-siècle British literature
… and New Editions introduced to its readers "a Female Sherlock Holmes" (12). This was Loveday Brooke, in C. L. Pirkis‘s collection The Experiences of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective. Loveday is one of many professional female detectives who traversed the pages of short stories, both serialised …
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Female Detectives, Female Criminals: An Examination Of Crime, Modernity And The New Woman In Early French And American Crime Films In The Us During The 1910s
… dissertation explores the representations of the female detective figure and the female criminal in early American and French crime films within the context of social and technological modernity related to the increase of women working outside the home, the advent of communicative technology, …
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Subjugated scientific knowledges : detecting the Victorian female scientist
… to examine the presence and absence of female scientists in Victorian fiction by exploring the female experience of science in fiction and in reality. The impact of culture, society and traditional notions of female ‘knowing’ are explored. Real-life women scientists’ work is considered …
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Between afrocentrism and universality : detective fiction by black women
… authors place a black woman in the role of the detective - an innovative feature not only in the realm of female detective literature of the past two decades but also with regard to the current discourse about race and class in US-American society. This discourse is important because detective …