![]() However, the Women’s Liberation Movement, as it grew of the civil rights movements and the revolutionary 1960s in both the USA and Europe, explicitly established a gender critique in many societal and cultural fields. Of course, crime fiction and crime writing have always, and inevitably so, been enmeshed with a discourse on gender: any narrative of crime and transgression unavoidably invites comparison with the behaviour and roles associated with ‘orthodox’ masculinity and femininity. As Maureen Reddy suggests, ‘eminist literary criticism, feminism as a social movement and feminist crime novels have grown up together, so to speak’ (Reddy 1990, p. Appearing in the late 1970s, feminist crime fiction arose out of a distinctive social context, the political, social and cultural sea change brought about by the second feminist wave. ![]()
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