There’s been a trend in mystery fiction lately of deliciously twisty psychological thrillers featuring women in roles that mysteries don’t usually afford them. I’ve talked about it before, The Gone Girl effect, and how these thrillers that set up a traditional mystery scenario. A woman (usually respectable and middle class) is missing or dead. We presume she is the victim. Then the author takes all our usual assumptions shakes them up in a Yatzee cup, hits us in the … Continue reading All the Missing Girls by Megan Miranda →
NB: This guest post is from Rebecca Pawel, who attends an annual literary festival Semana Negra in Gijon, Spain. She thought this year’s sessions might be of interest to the Bitchery, and I heartily agreed. The panels and conversations this year focused on the representations of violence against women, so TW for that. Thank you for writing all of this up for us, Rebecca! Muchas gracias! Last month Carrie S published an entry about why … Continue reading Guest Post: Gender, Genre, and Representations of Violence Against Women: Report from the Semana Negra →
Warning: This post will be discussing the book Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn, and I am presuming that most everyone has read it/ seen the movie by now, so spoilers ahead! Ahoy! I enjoyed Gone Girl when it came out, so when the book became part of the zeitgeist I was thrilled. I was more than a little baffled, though, when people started saying that the book/movie was anti-feminist or even misogynist. I get where some people were angry … Continue reading Good Girl, Gone Girl, and Women in Psychological Thrillers →
