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The strong female character is a stock character, the opposite of the damsel in distress. In the first half of the 20th century, the rise of mainstream feminism and the increased use of the concept in the later 20th century have reduced the concept to a standard item of pop culture fiction.
Pages in category "Female characters in literature" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 461 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Before the 1970s—in the first and second waves of feminism—feminist literary criticism was concerned with women's authorship and the representation of women's condition within the literature; in particular the depiction of fictional female characters. In addition, feminist literary criticism is concerned with the exclusion of women from the ...
Women in Ancient Greece wore himations; and in Ancient Rome women wore the palla, a rectangular mantle, and the maphorion. [ 54 ] The typical feminine outfit of aristocratic women of the Renaissance was an undershirt with a gown and a high-waisted overgown, and a plucked forehead and beehive or turban-style hairdo.
From Agatha Christie to Jane Austen, Rupi Kaur to J.K. Rowling, these women deserve a space on your bookshelf. 10 inspiring books by powerful female authors to read in honor of Women's History ...
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."
In the late 1800s and early 1900s, a new breed of women started to emerge from the depths of circus tents around the world: the strong-woman. These women quickly drew large crowds of circus lovers ...
A character who begins as calm and collected but increasingly becomes more angry and exasperated as the childish antics of those around them escalate: Squidward Tentacles, Theodore J. Mooney, Emil Sitka in the works of The Three Stooges: Smurfette: Named after the comic character Smurfette from The Smurfs. A female character in an otherwise all ...