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Huffed Masculinity. The Female Threat in Cain's "Double Indemnity"


Term Paper, 2016

17 Pages, Grade: 2,0


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Table of Contents

1 Introduction

2 Interdepending Dualities: Males and Females
2.1 Rubin’s Definition of Sex and Gender
2.2 Masculinity in the 1930s
2.3 Overstepping her boundaries: The Femme Fatale in hard-boiled Fiction

3 Hard-boiled evidence against Phyllis
3.1 Outwitting the System: Phyllis’ and Huff’s wits vs. Keyes’ Wits
3.2 Desperate Housewife: Phyllis’s subversion of Mr. Nirdlinger’s masculinity
3.3 Phyllis as the Embodiment of Death

4 Conclusion

5 Works cited

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Title
Huffed Masculinity. The Female Threat in Cain's "Double Indemnity"
College
University of Koblenz-Landau
Grade
2,0
Author
Year
2016
Pages
17
Catalog Number
V366502
ISBN (eBook)
9783668452305
ISBN (Book)
9783668452312
File size
827 KB
Language
English
Keywords
Cain, Femme Fatale, double indemnity, masculinity, gender, Huff, Phyllis
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Stephan Riedl (Author), 2016, Huffed Masculinity. The Female Threat in Cain's "Double Indemnity", Munich, GRIN Verlag, https://www.grin.com/document/366502

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