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HAWAII STATE PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM
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Strunk, Mary Elizabeth.
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Hoover, J. Edgar (John Edgar), 1895-1972.
United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation -- History -- 20th century.
Female offenders -- United States -- Biography.
Women outlaws -- United States -- Biography.
Crime -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Law enforcement -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Sex role -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
United States -- Social conditions -- 1918-1932.
United States -- Social conditions -- 1933-1945.
United States -- Social conditions -- 1945-
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Wanted women : an Am...
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Wanted women : an American obsession in the reign of J. Edgar Hoover / Mary Elizabeth Strunk.
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Strunk, Mary Elizabeth.
Lawrence : University Press of Kansas, c2010.
Subjects
Hoover, J. Edgar (John Edgar), 1895-1972.
United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation -- History -- 20th century.
Female offenders -- United States -- Biography.
Women outlaws -- United States -- Biography.
Crime -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Law enforcement -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Sex role -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
United States -- Social conditions -- 1918-1932.
United States -- Social conditions -- 1933-1945.
United States -- Social conditions -- 1945-
ISBN:
9780700617449 (cloth : alk. paper) :
0700617442 (cloth : alk. paper)
Series:
Culture America.
Description:
x, 258 p., [26] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents:
Introduction: Ten most wanted -- The girls behind the man behind the gun -- Mother Barker, public enemy no. 1 -- The perfectly ambiguous Bonnie Parker -- Radical cheerleaders and a frustrated PTA type -- Panther, prisoner, poet, and prize -- Glorious and bitter ends -- Epilogue.
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Looks at the lives of ten female outlaws and explores what their stories, and the legends surrounding them, reveal about the evolution of gender roles, changes in law-enforcement practices, and shifting American cultural values.
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Hawaii State Library
Social Science & Philosophy
364.10922 St
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