Policing Gender and Alicia Giménez Bartlett's Crime Fiction

Alicia Giménez Bartlett's popular crime series, organized around the exploits of Police Inspector Petra Delicado and Deputy Inspector Fermi­n Garzon, is arguably the most successful detective series in Spain of the last three decades. Nina L. Molinaro examines the tensions between the rhetoric of gender differences espoused by the woman detecti

Nina L. Molinaro is Associate Professor of Spanish in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Colorado at Boulder, USA.

Table of Contents: Acknowledgments 1 Detection and Correction in the Petra Delicado Series 2 Rationalizing Rape and Other Offenses in Ritos de muerte 3 Dogging Gender and Dia de perros 4 (Re)Solving Castration Anxiety in Mensajeros de la oscuridad 5 Criminal Images and Muertos de papel 6 Masquerading Mothers and Serpientes en el paraiso 7 Home, Homicide, and Un barco cargado de arroz 8 The Romance of Family Planning in Nido vacio 9 Afterword: El silencio de los claustros and Nadie quiere saber Works Cited Index