{"product_id":"criminal-women-in-contemporary-french-crime-fiction-gender-genre-and-the-polar-fzsministe-9781350529410","title":"Criminal Women in Contemporary French Crime Fiction: Gender, Genre and the Polar Féministe","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn exploration of representations of female criminality in contemporary French crime fiction, this book offers a literary, sociological and feminist analysis of the stereotypes surrounding women and crime.\u003c\/b\u003e Surveying how these stereotypes are both invoked and disrupted, it covers Pierre Lemaitre's \u003ci\u003eAlex\u003c\/i\u003e, Fred Vargas's \u003ci\u003eQuand Sort la Recluse\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003eThis Poison Will Remain\u003c\/i\u003e), Leïla Slimani's \u003ci\u003eChanson Douce\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003eLullaby\u003c\/i\u003e) and Hannelore Cayre's \u003ci\u003eLa Daronne \u003c\/i\u003e(\u003ci\u003eThe Godmother\u003c\/i\u003e) in their original French and their English translations. Addressing the gap of scholarly interest in legal and cultural representations of female violence in French crime fiction, Ciara Gorman evaluates the subversive ways in which archetypes of female criminality - ranging from the \u003ci\u003efemme fatale\u003c\/i\u003e to the witch, and from the \u003ci\u003emère fatale\u003c\/i\u003e to the 'bitch' - are deployed not as reductive shorthands about femininity, but as motors of innovation and resistance. The form and plot of each text is examined for its potential as a \u003ci\u003epolar féministe\u003c\/i\u003e (feminist crime fiction), a crime novel which incorporates the concerns of feminism - be that the prevalence of sexual and sexist violence in society, or the legacy of misogynist representations of women in the crime genre as a whole. \u003ci\u003eCriminal Women\u003c\/i\u003e considers the female criminal character as a figure of opportunity, the point at which readers and writers alike may reassess their assumptions about female criminality, and about the feminist potential of crime fiction itself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCiara Gorman \u003c\/b\u003eis Assistant Professor in French and Francophone Studies at Maynooth University, Ireland.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52179988644114,"sku":"9781350529410","price":126.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_8cece007-671d-4e88-91f5-ea38b357bc9f.jpg?v=1775642642","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/criminal-women-in-contemporary-french-crime-fiction-gender-genre-and-the-polar-fzsministe-9781350529410","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}