Murdering Masculinities: Fantasies of Gender and Violence in the American Crime Novel

by Greg Forter

Though American crime novels are often derided for containing misogynistic attitudes and limiting ideas of masculinity, Greg Forter maintains that they are instead psychologically complex and sophisticated works that demand closer attention. Eschewing the synthetic methodologies of earlier work on crime fiction, Murdering Masculinities argues that the crime novel does not provide a consolidated and stable notion of masculinity. Rather, it...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814726917
• ISBN13: 9780814726914
• Release Date: November 2000
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"