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The monstering of Myra Hindley /
Fifty years after the Moors Murders and 15 years since Myra Hindley died in prison, after one of the longest sentences served by a woman, this book raises some delicate and searching questions. They include: "Why was Hindley treated differently?", "Why do we need to create demons?&quo...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Hook, Hampshire, United Kingdom :
Waterside Press,
2016.
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Full text (Wentworth users only) |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; Copyright and Publication Details; Table of Contents; About the author; Acknowledgements; Dedication; Foreword; The authors of the Foreword; Introduction; My personal connection with Myra; Structure of the book; Some words of encouragement; Timeline ; Cookham Wood; Suspect by association; A defective law; The English trial; The Moors Murders; Meeting Myra ; Vulnerable women ; The Outsider; Casual interaction; Two cases to compare ; Some other European comparisons; The Nature of Myra's Injustice; Misogyny, blackmail and abuse; Public and Political Involvement ; Justice versus politics.
- The Prisoner; Select Bibliography; Index; Cries For Help: Women Without a Voice, Women's Prisons in the 1970s, Myra Hindley and her Contemporaries; Holloway Prison: An Inside Story.