No Angels: Women who commit violence - Softcover

Myers, Alice

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0044409575 ISBN 13: 9780044409571

Publisher: Pandora, 1996

Synopsis

An exploration of high-profile women, contemporary and historical, real and fictional, who commit violence against men, this book was originally inspired by the Bobbitt case and reactions to it. In essays on Lindy Chamberlain (the "dingo baby" case), Myra Hindley, Winnie Mandela, Lorena Bobbitt, Rosemary West, Ruth Ellis and "the Brookside Two", among others, the contributors tease out the blurred boundaries between myth and reality which always surround violent women and attempt to demolish the old either/or explanations of powerless victim or evil demon.

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From the Back Cover:

A provocative exploration of women who commit violence against men, 'No Angels' looks at high-profile violent women, contemporary and historical, real and fictional, and examines society's attitudes towards these women and their crimes.

Originally inspires by the Lorena Bobbitt case and the reactions it caused, 'No Angels' also includes essays on Myra Hindley, Winnie Mandela, Rosemary West, Lindy Chamberlain, Ruth Ellis and the 'Brookside Two', amongst others. The contributors tease out the real women behind blurred images and attempt to demolish the old simplistic explanations of powerless victim or evil demon.

Contributors include Rachel Holmes on Winnie Mandela, Stephanie Savage on the Betty Broderick story, Helen Yeates on Lindy Chamberlain, Elizabeth Stanko and Anne Scully on Emma Humphries and Kiranjit Ahluwalia, Sean French on Rosemary West, Emily Hamer on Suffragettes and Tracy Hargreaves on the 'Brookside Two'.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pandora
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0044409575
• ISBN 13: 9780044409571
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224