Bodies of Evidence: Women, Society, and Detective Fiction in 1990s Japan 9780824861667

The publication in 1992 of Miyabe Miyuke’s highly anticipated Kasha (translated into English as All She Was Worth) repre

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Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgments
CHAPTER 1. Introduction
CHAPTER 2 .A Home of One’s Own Identity, Community, and Nostalgia in Miyabe Miyuki’s All She Was Worth
CHAPTER 3. Office(r) Ladies Police Work as Women’s Work
CHAPTER 4. Sex and Violence Is That a Gun in Your Pocket, or Are You Just Happy to See Me?
CHAPTER 5. Sexing the City Bodies and Space in the Work of Matsuo Yumi
Afterword
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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