Detecting Women -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Part I. The Crime Lab: Gender and the Detective Genre -- 1. Introduction: The Case -- 2. Detecting Criticism: Theorizing Gender and the Detective Genre -- Part II. The Rise and Demise of the Classical Female Detective: 1929 to 1950 -- 3. Movie Modernization: The Film Industry and Working Women in the Depression -- 4. Detecting as a Hobby: Amateur and Professional Detectives in the 1930s -- 5. Sob Sisters Don't Cry: The Girl Reporter as Detective in the 1930s -- 6. In Name Only: The Transformation of the Female Detective in the 1940s -- 7. The Maritorious Melodrama: The Female Detective in 1940s Film Noir -- Part III. From Crime-Fighter to Crime Scene Investigator: 1970 to Today -- 8. Femme Might Makes Right1: The 1970s Blaxploitation Vigilante Crime-Fighter -- 9. Detecting the Bounds of the Law: The Female Lawyer Thriller of the 1980s -- 10. Detecting Identity: From Investigative Thrillers to Crime Scene Investigators -- Appendix I -- Appendix II -- Appendix III -- Notes -- Selected Filmography -- Works Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.