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Change and Anxiety: Historical Context,y appear as both central and peripheral anxieties in the texts explored in the succeeding chapters, and these historical and cultural contexts add valuable insight into the ambivalent modes of femininity depicted in those narratives.

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https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59298-9nity while also displaying with their resolutions an emphasis on domesticity and on maintaining a heteronormative order. The introduction highlights the book’s key point, which is that female characters in golden age crime fiction are used in ways that question and renegotiate social, gender and gen