But reading crime fiction written by women remains a powerfully feminist act. Because crime fiction written by women often reflects parts of the female experience which remain taboo and are frequently neglected, both in other genres and by male writers. Perhaps more than any others, those two words — agency and control — lie at the heart of why reading crime fiction written by women is feminism in action. There is a female solidarity in women reading crime fiction written by women. In the act of writing and reading crime, we finally get to be the villains and the heroes that, as human beings, we truly are.

Source: National Post May 17, 2019 19:30 UTC