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Posts Tagged: Law and Order

Rumpus Exclusive: “The Beautiful Dead”

By Marcia Trahan

June 8th, 2020

It was personal, as the detectives on my favorite shows always said.

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The Fantasy of the Femme Fatale

By Chloe Cole

July 8th, 2019

I couldn’t help but see these women-led stories as missed opportunities.

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Tags: Barbara Stanwyck, Brie Larson, Captain Marvel, Chloe Cole, Darrell Steffensmeier, David Fincher, dead girl, Double Indemnity, Ed Gein, empowerment, feminism, feminist, femme fatale, femme fatales, gender inequality, gender roles, gender stereotypes, gillian flynn, Girl Power, Gone Girl, In the Woods, Kate Mara, Lady Killers, Law & Order, Law & Order: SVU, Law and Order, Law and Order: SVU, literary tropes, Little Scarlet, misogyny, murder, murderer, noir, rape, sexual trauma, sexual violence, Sharp Objects, SVU, Tana French, trope, violence, violence against women, Walter Mosley

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