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Murder, She Blogged: The First Female Detectives?

History post by jessmccabe on July 29, 2011 - 10:11am; tagged 1960s, 1970s, detectives, firsts, literature, mystery novels.

Honey West, a young white woman with blonde hair, sitting back holding an ocelot on her knee Let's track down some of the first female detective characters, in literature, film and television.

The Bitch in Black: Ladies...Firsts

Social Commentary post by Deesha Philyaw on May 31, 2009 - 4:29pm; tagged alysa stanton, black women, female ceos, female rabbis, firsts, Nancy Drew, sonia sotomayor, The Bitch in Black, ursula burns, xerox.

Nancy Drew-loving Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor is joined this month by two other recent notable First...Ladies.

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