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Wanted women : an American obsession in the reign of J. Edgar Hoover / Mary Elizabeth Strunk.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Strunk, Mary Elizabeth.
- Series:
- Culture America
- CultureAmerica
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation.
- Female offenders--United States--Biography.
- Female offenders.
- Women outlaws--United States--Biography.
- Women outlaws.
- Crime--United States--History--20th century.
- Crime.
- Hoover, J. Edgar (John Edgar), 1895-1972.
- Hoover, J. Edgar.
- United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation--History--20th century.
- United States.
- Law enforcement--United States--History--20th century.
- Law enforcement.
- Sex role--United States--History--20th century.
- Sex role.
- History.
- United States--Social conditions--1918-1932.
- Social conditions.
- United States--Social conditions--1933-1945.
- United States--Social conditions--1945-.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- x, 258 pages, 26 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Lawrence : University Press of Kansas, [2010]
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780700617449
- 0700617442
- OCLC:
- 560551951
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