Agatha Christie: Investigating Femininity

Agatha Christie: Investigating Femininity is a 2006 non-fiction book written by Merja Makinen. It was published by Palgrave Macmillan UK

Publishers description
Christie's books depict women as adventurous, independent figures who renegotiate sexual relationships along more equal lines. Women are also allowed to disrupt society and yet the texts refuse to see them as double deviant because of their femininity. This book demonstrates exactly how quietly innovatory Christie was in relation to gender.

Table of contents

 * Introduction
 * Preliminary Proceedings
 * Detecting Deviancy
 * Available Femininities
 * Women Behaving Badly
 * Representing Women of Violence Agatha Christie and Her Contemporary Culture
 * An Examination of Otherness, as the West Encounters the East