What is it about?
An analysis of Margaret Thatcher's impact on British higher education and women's academic crime fiction in the 1980s and 1990s.
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Why is it important?
Provides an interdisciplinary look at the complex relationships between politics, higher education, and literature. Looks at an under-researched genre of literature (crime fiction and academic crime novels, in particular), particularly from a feminist perspective.
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Part of my continuing research on the under-represented genre of women's academic fiction.
Dr. Ann McClellan
Plymouth State University
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This page is a summary of: Slashing university education: Womens academic crime fiction in Thatchers Britain, Literature & History, September 2016, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0306197316667859.
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