Thank you, Mike, for summarizing that stuff so I don't have
to read it. I'm a feminist, but I'd much rather read a real
detective story--even by an old-fashioned man--than
postmodern analysis of anything. Detective Agency is a good
title, though. Walton and Jones deserve points for
that.
That the literature of the hardboiled female detective
invokes feminist themes seems fairly obvious to me. Strong
women making their way in a man's world, for starters. Then
there are the issues that Paretsky among others addresses:
woman battering, female poverty, prostitution and so on.
(What you referred to as "feminine issues"--your word or
theirs?) Among those that deny it, there may be a certain
amount of resistance to the word feminist. Apparently most
young women don't relate to it all. Cause not only are we in
a postmodern world, we're in a postfeminist world--or so it's
said.
I was wondering about that date you gave for VI Warshawski. I
kind of remember discovering her around the same time as
Kinsey Milhone. Well spotted, Kevin.
Karin
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