Thrillers have been traditionally very masculine books; the women characters often rather decorative.
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If there were genders to genres, fiction would be unquestionably feminine.
Most mainstream male fiction is littered with heroines, and female characters are basically so great, you want to fall in love with them.
I think as women we've always been very used to growing up reading and identifying with male protagonists, especially in fantasy. There's a saying in publishing that girls will read about boys, but boys will only read about boys, and it's important to give women strong heroines.
Literary fiction is kept alive by women. Women read more fiction, period.
I wonder if novels work for women because they give us a safe place to talk about our ish.
I can't imagine writing a book without some strong female characters, unless that was a demand of the setting.
Certainly, there is a tendency to lump women who write similar types of books together, and it's not just in crime, is it? Women's fiction is supposedly a whole genre of itself. There's no male equivalent.
Romantic fiction is the only purely feminine art form. All other art forms were shaped and are dominated by men.
Far more women read fiction than men, and because of this, novels have become marginalised as serious texts.
I think in general, novels by men tend to be taken more seriously than novels by women.
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