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Pages in category "Female characters in literature" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 458 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Women may not always get the historical credit their male counterparts do, but as these women show, they were always there doing the work. With their fierce determination and refusal to back down, all of these 12 women were not just ahead of their own times, but responsible for shaping ours.
By this metric, the strong female character is a woman with the gendered behavior taken out. [1] This is a contrast to the traditional way women are displayed in media, Brooke Shapiro suggests in her research that the scarce times women are at the forefront of the story, they are generally portrayed with the patriarchal ideologies of being ...
Women in Shakespeare is a topic within the especially general discussion of Shakespeare's dramatic and poetic works. Main characters such as Dark Lady of the sonnets have elicited a substantial amount of criticism, which received added impetus during the second-wave feminism of the 1960s.
Hit: Essays on Women's Rights, Mary Edwards Walker (1871) On the Progress of Education and Industrial Avocations for Women, Matilda Joslyn Gage (1871) [40] "Put Us In Your Place" from The Revolution, Lillie Blake (1871) [41] On Woman's Right to Suffrage, Susan B. Anthony (1872) [42] "Sentencing of Susan B. Anthony for the Crime of Voting" (1873 ...
The academic discipline of women's writing is a discrete area of literary studies which is based on the notion that the experience of women, historically, has been shaped by their sex, and so women writers by definition are a group worthy of separate study: "Their texts emerge from and intervene in conditions usually very different from those which produced most writing by men."
Strong-woman acts became staples for circuses and a few of them rose to celebrity status. One of the most well known ladies of strength was Joan Rhodes. She first started out as a cabaret act and ...
Recently, however, feminist literary critics have identified a number of texts written by women which, they argue, deserve to be considered epics, as they have many of the required qualities: emphasis on heroism, nation building, religious authority, a strong quest motif, and significant length. [2]