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Tables of Contents for Detective Agency
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of Figures
ix
2
Acknowledgments
xi
Introduction
1
9
1. The Private Eye and the Public: Professional Women Detectives and the Business of Publishing
10
34
2. Gumshoe Metaphysics: Reading Popular Culture and Formula Fiction
44
42
3. Does She or Doesn't She?: The Problematics of Feminist Detection
86
32
4. The Text as Evidence: Linguistic Subversions
118
31
5. Private I: Viewing (through) the (Female) Body
149
39
6. Plotting against the Law: Outlaw Agency
188
32
7. "She's Watching the Detectives": The Woman PI in Film and Television
220
53
Appendix
273
4
Notes
277
14
Works Cited
291
20
Index
311