No angels
Subtitle: women who commit violence
By: edited by Alice Myers and Sarah Wight.
Contributors: Myers, Alice.; Wight, Sarah, M.A.
Publisher: Pandora, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 1996
Place of publication: London; San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
Subjects: Female offenders; Violence in women; Women in mass media; Crime in mass media; Violence in mass media
Description: 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 inspired 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 196-203) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Sarah Wight and Alice Myers; title: The guilt of the innocent and the innocence of the guilty: the cases of Marie Fahmy and Ruth Ellis / Anette Ballinger; title: Partners in crime: defending the female of the species / Sean French; title: Trying the Brookside two: domestic violence, soap opera, and real life / Tracy Hargreaves; title: Retelling the tale: the Emma Humphreys case / Elizabeth Stanko and Anne Scully; title: Fighting for freedom: suffragette violence against their state / Emily Hamer; title: All too familiar: gender, violence, and national politics in the fall of Winnie Mandela / Rachel Holmes; title: Phallocentric slicing: 20/20's reporting of Lorena and John Bobbitt / Patricia J. Priest, Cindy Jenefsky, and Jill D. Swenson; title: Women who kill and the made-for-tv movie: the Betty Broderick story / Stephanie Savage; title: Victimless crimes and crimeless victims: Lindy Chamberlain and Fairlie Arrow / Helen Yeates; title: Re-membering John Bobbitt: castration anxiety, male hysteria, and the phallus / Laura Grindstaff and Martha McCaughey.