Examines 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.
Jen Erdman is a history professor at Notre Dame of Maryland in Baltimore, Maryland. Her research focuses on the intersection of history and popular culture.