No angels : women who commit violence / edited by Alice Myers and Sarah Wight.

Other author Myers, Alice.
Other author Wight, Sarah.
Format Book
Publication InfoLondon ; San Francisco : Pandora, 1996.
Descriptionxvi, 208 pages ; 22 cm
Subjects

Contents Introduction / Sarah Wight and Alice Myers -- The guilt of the innocent and the innocence of the guilty: the cases of Marie Fahmy and Ruth Ellis / Annette Ballinger -- Partners in crime: defending the female of the species / Sean French -- Trying the Brookside two: domestic violence, soap opera, and real life / Tracy Hargreaves -- Retelling the tale: the Emma Humphreys case / Elizabeth Stanko and Anne Scully -- Fighting for freedom: suffragette violence against their state / Emily Hamer -- All too familiar: gender, violence, and national politics in the fall of Winnie Mandela / Rachel Holmes -- Phallocentric slicing: 20/20's reporting of Lorena and John Bobbitt / Patricia J. Priest, Cindy Jenefsky, and Jill D. Swenson -- Women who kill and the made-for-tv movie: the Betty Broderick story / Stephanie Savage -- Victimless crimes and crimeless victims: Lindy Chamberlain and Fairlie Arrow / Helen Yeates -- Re-membering John Bobbitt: castration anxiety, male hysteria, and the phallus / Laura Grindstaff and Martha McCaughey.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 196-203) and index.
ISBN0044409575

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks HV6046 .N6 1996 ✔ Available Place Hold