From his Chapter, La Princesse de Cleves, "The only women who do speak their minds at times are those in positions of power, (The Queen, The Queen Mother..), because in these positions they function as honorary males." (Brink, 59) Proximity to power occurs in other forms of literature involving other honorary males. Honorary Males in Detective Fiction  Kathleen Gregory Klein’s 1988 "The Woman Detective: Gender and Genre" investigates the difficulties of creating a woman character while keeping true to the genre of the standard male detective theme. Klein is mentioned on this very issue in Glenwood Irons "Feminism in Women's Detective Fiction" stating, "‘Certainly a woman’s script did not include setting up professionally in a job which so clearly required acknowledged masculine virtues like physical strength, logical thinking, and worldly experience. Women might be successful amateur detectives so long as they employed the more stereotypically feminine talents of gossip and intuition, but they were barred from detective careers.' Many female detective fiction authors choose to include, even center, stories around gendered issues like status and traditionally feminine behaviour. The Amelia Butterworth Mysteries by Anna Katharine Green is a detective fiction based on Amelia Buttersworth, a wealthy, single women with limited family has the free time to solve mysteries. This character has been referred to as an Honorary Male in "Feminism in Women's Detective Fiction" by Glenwood Irons, "They work seamlessly in a male world, occasionally adding the "frisson" of a woman in peril. These characters are anomalies...These two women detectives are clearly honorary males." (Irons, pg. 3)