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  2. Strong female character - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Femininity - Wikipedia

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    In Hindu traditions, Devi is the female aspect of the divine. Shakti is the divine feminine creative power, the sacred force that moves through the entire universe [83] and the agent of change. She is the female counterpart without whom the male aspect, which represents consciousness or discrimination, remains

  4. Women warriors in literature and culture - Wikipedia

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    The female character of the tales classified as ATU 519, "The Strong Woman as Bride (Brunhilde)" The female hero of ATU tale type 300, "The Dragon-Slayer", in variants from Latin America [27] The Girl as Soldier, Russian tales about a girl in male disguise

  5. Girl next door - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 29 October 2024. Archetype of a cute, kind, unassuming, and honest woman or girl, often in a romantic story This article is about the stock character. For other uses, see Girl Next Door (disambiguation). Dik Trom and the blind girl next door (by Johan Braakensiek) The girl next door is a young female ...

  6. Girl - Wikipedia

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    A girl is a young female human, usually a child or an adolescent. While the term girl has other meanings, including young woman, [1] daughter [2] or girlfriend [1] regardless of age, the first meaning is the most common one. The treatment and status of girls in any society is usually closely related to the status of women in that culture. In ...

  7. Miss Havisham - Wikipedia

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    Miss Havisham is a character in Charles Dickens' 1861 novel Great Expectations. She is a wealthy spinster, once jilted at the altar, who insists on wearing her wedding dress for the rest of her life. She lives in a ruined mansion with her adopted daughter, Estella. Dickens describes her as looking like "the witch of the place".

  8. Friday (Robinson Crusoe) - Wikipedia

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    The character is the source of the expression "Man Friday", used to describe a male personal assistant or ... The female equivalent is Girl Friday. [6] The July 1 ...

  9. Moana (character) - Wikipedia

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    A "meta" version of the character appears with other Disney princesses and Elsa and Anna from Frozen (2013) in the Wreck-It Ralph (2012) sequel, Ralph Breaks the Internet (2018). When some of the princesses describe to Vanellope von Schweetz how they stare at "important water" to gain inspiration for their songs, Moana says she stares at the ocean.