Merja Makinen (born 1953) is a British literary scholar, and was director of communication and culture at

Middlesex University Middlesex University London (legally Middlesex University and abbreviated to MDX) is a public research university based in Hendon, northwest London, England. The university also has campuses in Dubai and Mauritius. The name of the university is ...

. She is an expert on feminist writing of the twentieth century, particularly that of

Angela Carter Angela Olive Pearce (formerly Carter, Stalker; 7 May 1940 – 16 February 1992), who published under the name Angela Carter, was an English novelist, short story writer, poet, and journalist, known for her feminist, magical realism, and picar ...

and

Jeanette Winterson Jeanette Winterson (born 27 August 1959) is an English author. Her first book, '' Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit'', was a semi-autobiographical novel about a lesbian growing up in an English Pentecostal community. Other novels explore gender ...

, and has written on the

feminist Feminism is a range of socio-political movements and ideology, ideologies that aim to define and establish the political, economic, personal, and social gender equality, equality of the sexes. Feminism holds the position that modern soci ...

aspects of popular

genre fiction In the book-trade, genre fiction, also known as formula fiction, or commercial fiction,Girolimon, Mars"Types of Genres: A Literary Guide" Southern New Hampshire University, 11 December 2023. Retrieved 3 September 2024. encompasses fictional ...

such as the books of

Agatha Christie Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, (; 15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976) was an English people, English author known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving ...

Selected publications

* ''Joyce Cary: A Descriptive Bibliography''. Mansell, London, 1989. (with Kevin Harris) * "Angela Carter's "The Bloody Chamber" and the Decolonization of Feminine Sexuality", ''

Feminist Review ''Feminist Review'' is a triannual peer-reviewed academic journal with a focus on exploring gender in its multiple forms and interrelationships. The journal was established in 1979. It is published by SAGE Publishing and is edited by a collective. ...

'', No. 42, Feminist Fictions (Autumn 1992), pp. 2–15. * ''Female fetishism: A new look''. Lawrence & Wishart, 1994. (with Lorraine Gamman) * ''Feminist Popular Fiction''. Palgrave, Basingstoke, 2001. * ''The Novels of Jeanette Winterson''. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2005. * ''Agatha Christie: Investigating Femininity''. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2006.

References

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