Put the Money in My Purse! : A History of Female Bank Robbers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yates, Judith A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women bank robbers--United States--History.

Women bank robbers.

Bank robberies--United States--History.

Bank robberies.

Women--United States--Social conditions.

Women.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (299 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Jefferson : McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers, 2022.

Summary:

"Drawing on media reports, interviews and court records, award-winning true crime author and criminologist Judith A. Yates recounts the stories of women bank robbers in the U.S., from the time of the Revolutionary War to the present. Ranging from sensational to poignant to comical, the heists of frontier outlaws, gun molls, insurrectionists, housewives, grandmas and young mothers "literally robbing for Pampers" are narrated as part of the social history of women in America"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Preface

Introduction: "This will all blow up"

Part I. It Begins

1. A Centralized Bank

2. Setting the Precedent

3. Cora Hubbard

Part II. The "Wild Bunch" in Skirts

4. Queens of the Wild Frontier

5. Etta/Ethel Place

6. Laura Bullion

Part III. The Legends

7. J. Edgar Creates Monsters

8. Bonnie Parker

9. "Ma" Barker

10. Estella Dickson

Part IV. Rosie the Riveter Robs a Bank

11. World War II, a Turning Point

12. Opal Dixon

13. Esther and Patsy Whiting

14. Dorothy Mary Platt

15. Wanda DiCenzi and Rose O'Donnell

16. Carolyn Sue McQueen

17. Linda Marsh

Part V. "Power to the People!"

18. Undercover

19. Susan Saxe and Katherine Ann Power

20. The Symbionese Liberation Army

21. The New World Liberation Front

22. Sara Jane Olson

Part VI. What Little Girls Aren't Made Of

23. Mean Little Girls

24. Chelsea and Elysia Wortman

25. Moxham, Johnstown, Pennsylvania

26. Symmes Township, Cincinnati, Ohio

27. Oakley, Ohio

28. Fall River, Massachusetts

29. Urbana, Illinois

Part VII. Diapers and Electric Bills

30. Stealing to Buy Necessities

31. Naomi Betts

32. Ashley Carrington

Part VIII. A Cane in One Hand, a Gun in the Other

33. The Granny Bandits

34. Rowena Leonard

35. Gail Cooke

36. Josephine Sari

37. Gail Simpson

38. Emily Coakley

Part IX. Who Needs Television When We Have Reality?

39. Voyeurs

40. Betty Oldham

41. Carolyn Sue Turner

42. Hannah Sabata

43. Heather "Charli" Johnston and Ashley "Adrienne" Miller

44. Wanda Irvin

45. The Starlet Bandit(s)

Part X. What the ­G-Men Know

46. The Current Statistics

47. "Don't Pull from the Clip /No Dye Packs"

Chapter Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Other Format:

Print version: Yates, Judith A. Put the Money in My Purse!

ISBN:

9781476645766

OCLC:

1295279954