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Strunk, Mary Elizabeth.

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The girl behind the man behind the gun: Women outlaws, public memory, and the rise and fall of Hoover's FBI.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The girl behind the man behind the gun: Women outlaws, public memory, and the rise and fall of Hoover's FBI./
Author:	Strunk, Mary Elizabeth.
Description:	238 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-06, Section: A, page: 2142.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International64-06A.
Subject:	American Studies. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3095489

The girl behind the man behind the gun: Women outlaws, public memory, and the rise and fall of Hoover's FBI.
Strunk, Mary Elizabeth.

The girl behind the man behind the gun: Women outlaws, public memory, and the rise and fall of Hoover's FBI. - 238 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-06, Section: A, page: 2142.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Minnesota, 2003.

This thesis is a study of the cultural importance of notorious outlaw women and their centrality to the law enforcement efforts of the FBI. It argues that, without the menacing figure of the lawless gun woman, J. Edgar Hoover's “G-Man” could not have captured public imagination as powerfully as he did. Presenting as evidence Hoover's own books, articles, and screenplays, the thesis analyzes the 1930s-era professionalization of the FBI and its accompanying struggle to control public perceptions of gangster heroes and heroines.Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017604
American Studies.

The girl behind the man behind the gun: Women outlaws, public memory, and the rise and fall of Hoover's FBI.
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520 $a The project focuses on two women in particular. Kate “Ma” Barker, the 60-year old matriarch of her sons' gang, and Bonnie Parker, the poetry-writing gun moll who died with Clyde Barrow, both have lingered in public memory, mainly because there has been so little agreement as to their proper place within it. Death and J. Edgar Hoover helped make them famous. But it was their allegorical utility that made Bonnie and Ma the criminal “it” girls of their time. Hoover might have censured the public's interest in Bonnie and Ma, but that only appears to have facilitated their posthumous conversion from petty crooks to outlaw legends. By the end of the twentieth century, these unlikely women had collectively inspired dozens of articles, books, songs, spoofs, anti-crime documentaries, and even a fashion craze.
520 $a In tracing the popular culture legacies of such women outlaws in the U.S., this thesis demonstrates its subjects' influences upon later twentieth-century gender ideologies, public policy, and forms of policing and social control. The image of the deviant woman acted as a foil that allowed the FBI publicly to assert the necessity of the G-Man and, in so doing, to re-inscribe the boundaries of “normal” citizens' behavior. Thus, female outlaw legends were at once cautionary tales and exhibitions of folk-hero worship.
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