However, Hallett points out that despite the income potential of the fans and the bestseller status of
the female writers of the genre, it continues to be an overwhelmingly male population of critics who callously dismiss the genre and its readers.
Not exact matches
Who: Oscar Isaac, Domhnall Gleeson, Alicia Vikander and Sonoya Mizuno What: A young programmer is selected to participate in a breakthrough experiment in artificial intelligence by evaluating the human qualities
of a breathtaking
female A.I.. When: April 10th Why:
Writer Alex Garland has worked almost exclusively in the science fiction
genre, so it comes as no surprise that his directorial debut occupies a similar space.
When Joanna Russ, one
of the few successful
female science - fiction
writers, died last year, her obituary in The New York Times referred to her as a
writer who helped «deliver science fiction into the hands
of the most alien creatures the
genre had yet seen — women.»
Women have always been well represented in the crime
genre, but thanks to Gone Girl and the wave
of female - penned psychological suspense it inspired, as well as to the wonderful Library
of America box set Women Crime
Writers: Eight Suspense Novels
of the 1940s and 1950s, it is no longer possible to think
of the
genre apart from women's experience.
posted at Belinda Williams Books, saying, «Belinda looks at whether gender matters in books and writing, including the varying recognition for male vs.
female writers, the gender
of the readership for different
genres and even the titles
of the
genres themselves.»
Participating
writers tend to be
female teens and young adults producing
genre fiction and fan fiction, the latter
of which is Wattpad's fastest - growing category.
According to research conducted by the Romance
Writers of America, 91 percent
of the
genre's readers are
female.