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Category: Female characters in literature. 11 languages. ... Women in Shahnameh (17 P) Female Shakespearean characters (2 C, 48 P) V. Female literary villains (87 P) W.
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 ...
The Swedish heroine Blenda advises the women of Värend to fight off the Danish army in a painting by August Malström (1860). The female warrior samurai Hangaku Gozen in a woodblock print by Yoshitoshi (c. 1885). The peasant Joan of Arc (Jeanne d'Arc) led the French army to important victories in the Hundred Years' War. The only direct ...
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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.
List of female rhetoricians; List of feminist literature; List of women anthologists; List of women cookbook writers; List of women electronic writers; List of women hymn writers; List of women sportswriters; Lists of women writers by nationality; Mothers of the Novel: 100 Good Women Writers Before Jane Austen; Norton Anthology of Literature by ...
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Female Erasure: What You Need to Know About Gender Politics' War on Women, the Female Sex and Human Rights, edited by Ruth Barrett (2016) Kim Ji-young, Born 1982 by Cho Nam Joo (2016) Sex Object: A Memoir, Jessica Valenti (2016) Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman, Lindy West (2016) The Geek Feminist Revolution, Kameron Hurley (2016)