Women in True Crime Media

<p> While many people think true crime is a new phenomenon Americans have been obsessed with the genre for over a century and popular culture continuously tries to cash in. The names of infamous serial killers are well-known but the identities of their often-female victims are frequently lost to history. This text flips the script and focuses on the women to keep their identities known and remembered. </p><p> This is the first book to examine how popular culture has mistreated women as both perpetrators and victims of crime covering a hundred-year span from 1920 to 2020. Detailed is popular culture's interest in true crime and how women in true crime documentation have largely been sexualized and victim-blamed over the decades.</p>