Nancy Drew and Company

Nancy Drew and Company
Author: Sherrie A. Inness
Publisher: Popular Press
Total Pages: 210
Release: 1997
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780879727369

Nine critical essays contribute to the accelerating academic investigation into girls' fiction as mechanics of gender formation in the 20th century. Among the series they discuss are Ann of Green Gables, Isabel Carleton, Linda Lane, Betsy-Tacy, and several focusing on automobiles, as well as Nancy herself. They also consider Girl Scouts and related organizations and books furthering the effort of World War II. No personal recollections are included. Paper edition (unseen), $18.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Secret of the Spa

Secret of the Spa
Author: Carolyn Keene
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2005
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0689868588

Nancy takes her best friends, George and Bess, to the new spa in town. However, weird things keep happening that may drive business away, and Nancy is determined to find out who's responsible.

Nancy Drew and Her Sister Sleuths

Nancy Drew and Her Sister Sleuths
Author: Michael G. Cornelius
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2008-09-02
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN:

"This collection of essays focuses on the girl sleuth, made famous by Nancy Drew but also characterized by other detectives like Cherry Ames, Trixie Belden, Linda Carlton, and, in today's world, by Veronica Mars and Hermione Granger. Solving mysteries is what each of the essayists strives to do, examining the conundrums these sleuths have left in their wake"--Provided by publisher.

Nancy Drew 13: The Mystery of the Ivory Charm

Nancy Drew 13: The Mystery of the Ivory Charm
Author: Carolyn Keene
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 193
Release: 1936-10-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 110107714X

What secret life-giving power does the exquisite ivory elephant charm contain? Can the trinket really protect its wearer from all harm? Nancy Drew finds out when the owner of the Bengleton Wild-Animal Show asks her to investigate one of the performers who may be involved in some mysterious illegal scheme.The girl detective’s assignment becomes complicated when the elephant trainer’s young assistant, Rishi, seeks refuge at the Drew home from his cruel foster father, Rai.While following clues to help the boy find his real father, Nancy learns about an eerie abandoned house. She is harassed by its strange owner, Anita Allison, and the fiendish Rai. How Nancy uses the ivory charm, reunites a maharaja with his son, and brings the evildoers to justice will mystify readers from beginning to end.

False Notes

False Notes
Author: Carolyn Keene
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 166
Release: 2012-04-24
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 143911353X

I'm always up for a good mystery, but when the big question is what I should get Dad for his birthday, I don't have a clue! And then another mystery comes my way -- one that involves Heather Simmons, a leading candidate in the upcoming election for mayor of River Heights. My friends and I are pretty sure that her daughter Leslie, musician extraordinaire, has been kidnapped. But the thing is, nobody is saying a word about it! It's hard to crack a case like this when no one will even admit that one exists. But I won't let a little thing like that stop me when I smell trouble....

Murder on the Set

Murder on the Set
Author: Carolyn Keene
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2007-05-08
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1416933972

Nancy Drew goes undercover as an extra in a movie shoot to solve a murder.

Crime Fictions

Crime Fictions
Author: François Gallix
Publisher: Presses Paris Sorbonne
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2004
Genre: Detective and mystery films
ISBN: 9782840503491

Delinquents and Debutantes

Delinquents and Debutantes
Author: Sherrie A. Inness
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 333
Release: 1998-08
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 081473765X

The contributors, including such leading scholars as Vicki L. Ruiz, Jennifer Scanlon, and Miriam Formanek-Brunell, examine myriad ways in which a variety of discourses and activities from popular girls' magazines and advertisements to babysitting and the Girl Scouts help form girls' experiences of what it means to be a girl, and later a woman, in our society. The essays address such topics as board games and the socialization of adolescent girls, dolls and political ideologies, Nancy Drew and the Filipina American experience, the queering of girls' detective fiction, and female juvenile delinquency to demonstrate how cultural discourses shape both the young and teenage girl in America. Although girls' culture has until now received comparatively little attention from scholars, this work confirms that understanding the culture of girls is essential to understanding how gender works in our society. Making a significant contribution to a long-neglected area of social and cultural inquiry, Delinquents and Debutantes will be of central interest to those in women's studies, American studies, history, literature, and cultural studies.

The Heroine with 1001 Faces

The Heroine with 1001 Faces
Author: Maria Tatar
Publisher: Liveright Publishing
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2021-09-14
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1631498827

World-renowned folklorist Maria Tatar reveals an astonishing but long-buried history of heroines, taking us from Cassandra and Scheherazade to Nancy Drew and Wonder Woman. The Heroine with 1,001 Faces dismantles the cult of warrior heroes, revealing a secret history of heroinism at the very heart of our collective cultural imagination. Maria Tatar, a leading authority on fairy tales and folklore, explores how heroines, rarely wielding a sword and often deprived of a pen, have flown beneath the radar even as they have been bent on redemptive missions. Deploying the domestic crafts and using words as weapons, they have found ways to survive assaults and rescue others from harm, all while repairing the fraying edges in the fabric of their social worlds. Like the tongueless Philomela, who spins the tale of her rape into a tapestry, or Arachne, who portrays the misdeeds of the gods, they have discovered instruments for securing fairness in the storytelling circles where so-called women’s work—spinning, mending, and weaving—is carried out. Tatar challenges the canonical models of heroism in Joseph Campbell’s The Hero with a Thousand Faces, with their male-centric emphases on achieving glory and immortality. Finding the women missing from his account and defining their own heroic trajectories is no easy task, for Campbell created the playbook for Hollywood directors. Audiences around the world have willingly surrendered to the lure of quest narratives and charismatic heroes. Whether in the form of Frodo, Luke Skywalker, or Harry Potter, Campbell’s archetypical hero has dominated more than the box office. In a broad-ranging volume that moves with ease from the local to the global, Tatar demonstrates how our new heroines wear their curiosity as a badge of honor rather than a mark of shame, and how their “mischief making” evidences compassion and concern. From Bluebeard’s wife to Nancy Drew, and from Jane Eyre to Janie Crawford, women have long crafted stories to broadcast offenses in the pursuit of social justice. Girls, too, have now precociously stepped up to the plate, with Hermione Granger, Katniss Everdeen, and Starr Carter as trickster figures enacting their own forms of extrajudicial justice. Their quests may not take the traditional form of a “hero’s journey,” but they reveal the value of courage, defiance, and, above all, care. “By turns dazzling and chilling” (Ruth Franklin), The Heroine with 1,001 Faces creates a luminous arc that takes us from ancient times to the present day. It casts an unusually wide net, expanding the canon and thinking capaciously in global terms, breaking down the boundaries of genre, and displaying a sovereign command of cultural context. This, then, is a historic volume that informs our present and its newfound investment in empathy and social justice like no other work of recent cultural history.

The Girls' History and Culture Reader

The Girls' History and Culture Reader
Author: Miriam Forman-Brunell
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2011
Genre: History
ISBN: 0252077687

This work provides scholars, instructors, and students with influential essays that have defined the field of American girls' history and culture. Covering girlhood and the relationships between girls and women, the volume tackles pivotal themes such as education, work, play, sexuality, consumption, and the body.