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I'm not sure they write books that are more violent etc. so much as we notice them more due to the fact that the author is female. I mean back during the Golden Age of Sci Fi for example it was assumed that both author and reader were more likely to be male and so the odd author of Sci Fi who was in fact female (like Leigh Brackett) tended to stand out I think. And probably the same thing is happening now with the violent or gory books. We expect violence and gore from a male writer like Stephen King for example (and yes I know he doesn't write crime fiction) and don't think anything of it, but a female author is different. We still have the double standard in terms of literature I think. We expect women to write more in the romance genre or chick lit than in violent crime fiction. Just my opinion of course.
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