Leseprobe
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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- Stephan Riedl (Autor:in), 2016, Huffed Masculinity. The Female Threat in Cain's "Double Indemnity", München, GRIN Verlag, https://www.grin.com/document/366502
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