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Hoffman provides a summary of the arguments laid out in the book’s previous chapters, concluding that in their ambivalent portrayals of femininity, golden age crime narratives suggest alternatives to—or more nuanced interpretations of—the modes of femininity available during the period in which they were published. Hoffman argues that examining these depictions, and moving beyond the female detective to consider killers, victims and romantic interests, allows for a clearer yet more intricate reading of the ways in which golden age crime narratives construct strategies for dealing with the conflicting social and cultural forces that influenced depictions of gender in popular culture.
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Alison Light, Forever England: Femininity, Literature and Conservatism Between the Wars (London; New York: Routledge, 1991), pp. 70–1.
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Light, Forever England, pp. 67–8.
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Hoffman, M. (2016). Conclusion. In: Gender and Representation in British ‘Golden Age’ Crime Fiction. Crime Files. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-53666-2_7
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