Amy & Vicki-- Maybe more women would appreciate the genre
if exposed to notable women noir writers of the classic era:
Mary (a.k.a Marty) Holland (personal fave), Virginia Kellog,
Lenore Coffee, Vera Caspary, Leigh Brackett, Dorothy Hughes,
etc.
d.a.
--- uplandharmabooks <
uplandharmabooks@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hey Vicki-
>
> I've found that women who like noir/hardboiled
are
> really outnumbered
> by the men...which means that yeah, we're
oddballs
> LOL. Most of the
> women I've tried to talk to about it think it
sounds
> way too dark,
> violent, and generally mysogynistic; they like
cozy
> mysteries...eewww. :D
>
> Granted, back in the day the target audience
was
> men, but my hubby (a
> huge noir geek) ran across some correspondence
(in
> an article) to
> publishers and authors from a few women who
loved
> it. I think the
> women nowadays who see the genre as
simply
> mysongynistic male fantasy
> stories are really missing out. My sis is one;
she
> can't see the femme
> fatales as strong women, but automatically sees
them
> as the creations
> of a male chauvinist's mind and nothing more. To
me,
> it's not so much
> about the evil-but-beautiful women who lead men
to
> doom, but people
> overall. A good writer can make a reader relate
to
> the protagonist
> regardless of gender, and Goodis definitely
does
> that for me (ok,
> there, I brought myself back to the Goodis topic
of
> the thread LOL).
>
> Amy
>
>
>
>
>
> --- In
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, vhend1234@...
> wrote:
> >
> > Oh, I get it. I certainly agree,
Amy.
> > I'm wondering how many of the Rara Avis women
like
> Goodis? Are we
> oddballs?
> > Anybody?
> > Vicki
> >
> >
> > [Non-text portions of this message have
been
> removed]
> >
>
>
>
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