No angels: women who commit violence

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 / Anette Ballinger -- Partners in crime: defending the female of the species / Sean French -- Trying the Brookside two: domestic violence, soap opera, and...

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Contributors: Myers, Alice (Editor) ; Wight, Sarah M.A (Other)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
Published: London San Francisco Pandora, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 1996
In:Year: 1996
Availability in Tübingen:Present in Tübingen.
UB: KB 19 A 5511
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Keywords:
Female offenders
Violence in women
Women in mass media
Crime in mass media
Violence in mass media
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Summary: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 / Anette 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
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (p. 196-203) and index
Physical Description:XXI, 208 S.
ISBN:0-04-440957-5