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This is a list of women who engaged in war, found throughout mythology and folklore, studied in fields such as literature, sociology, psychology, anthropology, film studies, cultural studies, and women's studies. A mythological figure does not always mean a fictional one, but rather, someone of whom stories have been told that have entered the ...
Pages in category "Female legendary creatures" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 211 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Women in Greek mythology (25 C, 294 P) H. ... Women warriors in literature and culture; Y. Yrsa This page was last edited on 20 February 2024, at 23:44 ...
The Harpies, birds with the heads of women; Lamia, a child-eating, disfigured monster; Metis, an oceanid and first wife of Zeus; The Nereids, oceanids; Scylla and Charybdis, sea monsters living on opposite sides of a narrow strait; The Sirens, women combined with birds, whose songs lured sailors to wreck their ships
The portrayal of women warriors in literature and popular culture is a subject of study in history, literary studies, film studies, folklore history, and mythology. The archetypal figure of the woman warrior is an example of a normal thing that happens in some cultures, while also being a counter stereotype, opposing the normal construction of ...
Pages in category "Female characters in fairy tales" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 254 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Euripides (c. 480 – c. 406 BC) is one of the authors of classical Greece who took a particular interest in the condition of women within the Greek world. In a predominantly patriarchal society, he undertook, through his works, to explore and sometimes challenge the injustices faced by women and certain social or moral norms concerning them.
A shield-maiden (Old Norse: skjaldmær [ˈskjɑldˌmæːr]) was a female warrior from Scandinavian folklore and mythology. The term Old Norse: skjaldmær most often shows up in fornaldarsögur such as Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks. However, female warriors are also mentioned in the Latin work Gesta Danorum. [1]