Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!emory!gatech!bloom-beacon!ora!ambar From: denio@beno.CSS.GOV (Dennis O'Neill) Newsgroups: soc.feminism Subject: Re: Nancy Drew: Girl Role Model Message-ID: <49551@seismo.CSS.GOV> Date: 12 Apr 91 21:13:28 GMT References: Sender: ambar@ora.com (Jean Marie Diaz) Organization: Institute for Obfuscatorial Dynamics Lines: 29 Approved: ambar@ora.com hrdoucet@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Heloise Doucet) writes: > So, if you could name ALL these mystery movies with aggressive female > sleuths and prove me wrong I will be willing to admit the mistakes in > my assumptions. Not movies, but books: o Sue Grafton's series with the protagonist Kinsey Millhone, a very self-sufficient, agressive PI. Setting is mostly a fictional California small town called Santa Teresa (let's hear it for small towns). o Sara Paretski's (sp?) series on V.I. Warshawski, whose supposed specialty is financial crime but whose cases always seem to turn into murder mysteries. Setting is Chicago (amazing - the US away from the East and West coasts). Just a plug for the books - I enjoyed them greatly, everyone should go out and buy them and make the authors wealthy. Besides, if Grafton's and Paretski's works sell tons of copies, betcha Hollywierd would notice and think about making movies of the books. As far as movies go, though, I think Heloise is probably right. Seems to me that Dorothy Sayers' character Harriet Vane was pretty strong and aggressive, but was definitely a character of the 20's, and was not the main character of Sayers' novels. -- Dennis O'Neill (denio@seismo.css.gov)