Policing Gender and Alicia Giménez Bartlett’s Crime Fiction

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Alicia Giménez Bartlett’s popular crime series, written in Spanish and organized around the exploits of Police Inspector Petra Delicado and Deputy Inspector Fermin Garzón, is arguably the most successful detective series published in Spain during the previous three decades.

Nina L. Molinaro examines the tensions between the rhetoric of gender differences espoused by the woman detective and the orthodox ideology of the police procedural. She argues that even as the series incorporates gender differences into the crime series formula, it does so in order to correct women, naturalize men’s authority, sanction social hierarchies, and assuage collective anxieties. As Molinaro shows, with the exception of the protagonist, the women characters require constant surveillance and modification, often as a result of men’s supposedly intrinsic protectiveness or excessive sexuality. Men, by contrast, circulate more freely in the fictional world and are intrinsic to the political, psychological, and economic prosperity of their communities.

Descripción

Tapa dura: 175 páginas

Editor: Ashgate Publishing Limited; Edición: New edition (28 de septiembre de 2015)

Colección: New Hispanisms: Cultural and Literary Studies

Idioma: Inglés

ISBN-10: 147245703X

ISBN-13: 978-1472457035

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