Atomic Renaissance: Women Mystery Writers of the 1940s and 1950s by Jeffrey Marks

Atomic Renaissance: Women Mystery Writers of the 1940s and 1950s

Jeffrey Marks

172 pages first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction mystery informative mysterious slow-paced
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America in the 1950s was a place of Eisenhower, the Korean Conflict, McCarthy, and Sputnik. Women found themselves trapped into a mold of Donna Reed and June Cleaver, marginalized by the hyper-masculinity of the age. Mystery fiction had become a m...

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