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Author Strunk, Mary Elizabeth.

Title Wanted women : an American obsession in the reign of J. Edgar Hoover / Mary Elizabeth Strunk.

Imprint Lawrence : University Press of Kansas, c2010.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  364.10922 St89w 2010    ---  Available
Description x, 258 p., [26] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Series CultureAmerica
Culture America.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Subject Female offenders -- United States -- Biography.
Women outlaws -- United States -- Biography.
Crime -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Hoover, J. Edgar (John Edgar), 1895-1972.
United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation -- 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)

 
    
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