Erika Janik
Författare till Pistols and Petticoats: 175 Years of Lady Detectives in Fact and Fiction
Om författaren
Erika Janik is an award-winning writer, the author of five previous books, including Marketplace of the Marvelous: The Strange Origins of Modern Medicine.
Verk av Erika Janik
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Allmänna fakta
- Vedertaget namn
- Janik, Erika
- Kön
- female
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Födelseort
- Redmond, Washington, USA
- Bostadsorter
- Madison, Wisconsin, USA
- Utbildning
- Linfield College (BA|history)
University of Wisconsin-Madison (MA|American history)
University of Wisconsin-Madison (MA|journalism) - Yrken
- radio producer
author
historian - Priser och utmärkelser
- Wisconsin Historical Society Award of Merit for History Writing (2011)
North American Travel Journalists Association award (historical travel writing, 2009)
William B. Hesseltine Award (2007) - Kort biografi
- Erika Janik is an award-winning author. She is the recipient of a 2011 Wisconsin Historical Society Award of Merit for History Writing, 2009 North American Travel Journalists Association award for historical travel writing as well as the 2007 William B. Hesseltine Award. Her work has appeared in many publications, including Smithsonian.com, Mental Floss, The Onion, MyMidwest, Wisconsin Trails magazine, On Wisconsin, and the Wisconsin Magazine of History, as well as on Wisconsin Public Radio. Originally from Redmond, Washington, she now knows more about Wisconsin than she ever thought possible. In her spare time, she's the producer and editor of "Wisconsin Life" at Wisconsin Public Radio. [retrieved 9/14/2016 from Amazon.com Author Page (adapted)]
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Pistols and Petticoats: 175 Years of Lady Detectives… av Erika Janik
Note: I accessed a digital review copy of this book through Edelweiss.
2011 (my brief review can be found at the LibraryThing post linked)
http://www.librarything.com/topic/120136#3046184
http://www.librarything.com/topic/120136#3046184
Det här är en av LibraryThings förhandsrecensioner.Fascinating read on both history of women detecting and their rise in the police as well as their fictional counterparts. I have to say I enjoyed reading about the fictional detectives more; I was surprised that real-life women still have been so far behind in advancing. Great read in how far we’ve come yet still need to go. My only upset was wishing there was a “Spoiler Alert” note in some sections as I’d love to find some of the original novels mentioned, yet we were told the whole story about the crime and who turned out to be the villains.… (mer)
Pistols and Petticoats from Erika Janik is an interesting overview of women in sleuthing, so to speak, in both fact and fiction. This includes police, private detectives and even the popular unofficial detectives who seem to always stumble into murder mysteries.
This is not meant to be an exhaustive detailed history, not sure one could be done in a single volume. This is meant more as a thematically structured look at the history of women in both real life and fiction who solve crimes. While the thematic structure seems to have thrown some, it makes perfect sense when showing how there was a play between what was transpiring in real life and in fiction.
If you're looking for a detailed account of each person, writer, or character not only will you be disappointed in this volume but you will never find that information in a single volume, sorry. If all you want is "facts" isolated from sociological context, you may be disappointed also. But if you want a nice overview of the topic and a perspective from which to understand the changing nature of both fictional "lady detectives" and real life women in law enforcement, you will likely find much to interest you. Because the net is cast so wide you may well find some people or characters you'd like to learn more about. Nothing is stopping you from doing so and this book can easily serve as a springboard into such interesting topics rather than expecting this to be some kind of all-inclusive tome which would have to extend to the thousands of pages to do so. In other words, I recommend this to those who want to perhaps pick up some perspective, learn some new names to explore, and aren't expecting the impossible from a book of about 250 pages.
Reviewed from a copy made available by the publisher via Edelweiss.… (mer)
This is not meant to be an exhaustive detailed history, not sure one could be done in a single volume. This is meant more as a thematically structured look at the history of women in both real life and fiction who solve crimes. While the thematic structure seems to have thrown some, it makes perfect sense when showing how there was a play between what was transpiring in real life and in fiction.
If you're looking for a detailed account of each person, writer, or character not only will you be disappointed in this volume but you will never find that information in a single volume, sorry. If all you want is "facts" isolated from sociological context, you may be disappointed also. But if you want a nice overview of the topic and a perspective from which to understand the changing nature of both fictional "lady detectives" and real life women in law enforcement, you will likely find much to interest you. Because the net is cast so wide you may well find some people or characters you'd like to learn more about. Nothing is stopping you from doing so and this book can easily serve as a springboard into such interesting topics rather than expecting this to be some kind of all-inclusive tome which would have to extend to the thousands of pages to do so. In other words, I recommend this to those who want to perhaps pick up some perspective, learn some new names to explore, and aren't expecting the impossible from a book of about 250 pages.
Reviewed from a copy made available by the publisher via Edelweiss.… (mer)
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