Merja Makinen
Merja Makinen is a British literary scholar, and was director of communication and culture at Middlesex University. She is an expert on feminist writing of the twentieth century, particularly that of Angela Carter and Jeanette Winterson, and has written on the feminist aspects of popular genre fiction such as the books of Agatha Christie.
Selected publications
Joyce Cary: A Descriptive Bibliography. Mansell, London, 1989.- "Angela Carter's "The Bloody Chamber" and the Decolonization of Feminine Sexuality", Feminist Review, No. 42, Feminist Fictions, pp. 2–15.Female fetishism: A new look. Lawrence & Wishart, 1994. Feminist Popular Fiction. Palgrave, Basingstoke, 2001. The Novels of Jeanette Winterson. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2005. Agatha Christie: Investigating Femininity. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2006.