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Criminal Femmes Fatales in American Hardboiled Crime Fiction

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  • © 2016

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Part of the book series: Crime Files (CF)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Introduction

  2. The “Mad-Bad” Criminal Woman

  3. Pre-War Criminal Femmes Fatales

  4. Conclusion

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About this book

This book fills a gap in both literary and feminist scholarship by offering the first major study of femme fatales in hardboiled crime fiction. Maysaa Jaber shows that the criminal literary figures in the genre open up powerful spaces for imagining female agency in direct opposition to the constraining forces of patriarchy and misogyny.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Baghdad, Iraq

    Maysaa Husam Jaber

About the author

Maysaa Husam Jaber is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Baghdad, Iraq. She was a fellow in The University of Massachusetts Boston, USA from September to November 2013. She has published with Palgrave Macmillan, Cambridge Scholars Publishing and the Arab World English Journal.

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