The Female Detective on Post-Network Television: Mother, Maiden, Cop

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In this book, Alison Wielgus examines the figure of the female detective on global television over the last twenty years, situating this figure within a growing transnational circulation of crime television. Through its focus on the female detective, this book explores issues of familial trauma, sexual assault, policing, and national identity to argue for a radicalization of crime television that incorporates discourses of restorative justice and a feminist ethics of care.

By separating female post-network television detectives from the police procedural and grounding these arguments in narrative evolutions of post-network television, Wielgus considers the role of victims and of the larger support networks of care around female detectives, especially as questions about the ongoing nature of trauma in the investigation of rape and homicide cases and the effectiveness of police arise in serialized contexts.

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Alison Wielgus is Associate Professor of Media Studies at the University of Wisconsin - Superior.