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The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts is a book written by Chinese American author Maxine Hong Kingston and published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1976. The book blends autobiography with old Chinese folktales. The Woman Warrior won the National Book Critics Circle Award and was named one of TIME magazine's top nonfiction books of the ...
The Woman King is a 2022 American historical action-adventure film about the Agojie, the all-female warrior unit that protected the West African kingdom of Dahomey during the 17th to 19th centuries. Set in the 1820s, the film stars Viola Davis as a general who trains the next generation of warriors to fight their enemies.
The OA is an American mystery drama television series with science fiction, supernatural, and fantasy elements. [5] [6] The OA debuted on Netflix on December 16, 2016.[7] [8] Created and executive-produced by Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij, the series is their third collaboration.
After the events in Maine, an unidentified feral woman is the last remaining member of a cannibalistic tribe that has roamed the Northeast coast for decades. [a]Chris Cleek is a mentally deranged and misogynistic country lawyer, who lives with his wife Belle, their two daughters Peggy, Darlin', and their son, Brian.
[1]: 269 The 2020 film Promising Young Woman also explores the idea of a warrior woman railing against deadly sexual inequity, using either passive or active violence in order to restore some sense of justice to a world skewed towards sympathy for sexually violent men. Often the violence is only implicit, or threatened, and exists in ...
Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype is a 1992 book by American psychoanalyst Clarissa Pinkola Estés, published by Ballantine Books. It spent 145 weeks on The New York Times Best Seller list over a three-year span, a record at the time. [ 1 ]
The Woman in the Window is a thriller novel by American author A.J. Finn, published by William Morrow on January 2, 2018. It hit #1 on the New York Times bestseller list. [ 1 ] The book follows the life of Dr. Anna Fox who suffers from agoraphobia and lives a reclusive life at her large home in New York City, where she one day witnesses a ...
Well of Shiuan is a 1978 fantasy novel by American author C.J. Cherryh. It is the second installment in the four-part Morgaine Stories series. The novel follows the ongoing quest of Morgaine, a determined and enigmatic woman, and her reluctant warrior companion, Nhi Vanye i Chya, as they traverse different worlds to close the Gates—ancient constructs capable of catastrophic destruction when ...