Beschreibung:
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.
Uniquely challenges the critical reception of Christie as only a puzzle-plot writer, instead arguing for her as an innovatory writer for feminist and gender criticism
Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction Preliminary Proceedings Detecting Deviancy Available Femininities Women Behaving Badly Representing Women of Violence An Examination of Otherness Endnotes Bibliography Index