List of women warriors in folklore, literature, and popular culture

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Joan of Arc statue at Place des Pyramides, Paris by Emmanuel Frémiet, 1874.
See also: List of women warriors in folklore

This list of women warriors in literature, and popular culture offers figures studied in fields such as gender studies, cultural studies, film studies, mass communication, sociology, psychology, and anthropology.

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Definition and scholarship

According to the Random House Dictionary, the term warrior has two meanings. The first literal use refers to "a person engaged or experienced in warfare." The second figurative use refers to "a person who shows or has shown great vigor, courage, or aggressiveness, as in politics or athletics."1 Scholars explore both literal examples (such as in the text Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism) as well as figurative ones. Professor Sherrie Inness in Tough Girls: Women Warriors and Wonder Women in Popular Culture and Frances Early and Kathleen Kennedy in Athena’s Daughters: Television’s New Women Warriors, for example, focus on figures such as Buffy Summers from the television series, Buffy the Vampire Slayer (who inspired the academic field, Buffy Studies). In the introduction to their text, Early and Kennedy discuss what they describe as a link between this "new" image of women warriors and girl power.2

Women warriors engaged in combat

Literature

Oil painting on silk, "Hua Mulan Goes to War"

Film

Television

Comics

Main article: List of superheroines
  • Tank Girl, Jet Girl and Sub Girl - Tank Girl comic and movie

Anime and manga

Games


See also

Notes

  1. ^ Warrior, Random House Dictionary, http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/warrior 
  2. ^ Book review
  3. ^ Irwin, Robert (2003), The Arabian Nights: A Companion, Tauris Parke Paperbacks, pp. 211-2, ISBN 1860649831 
  4. ^ Razor girls: Genre and Gender in Cyberpunk Fiction
  5. ^ Shrek the Third
  6. ^ ‘Shrek,’ for All Ages
  7. ^ Game Informer provides information on who the character is, why the character is important, and what is next for the character in "Faces of Warcraft: The Essential Introduction to Characters," Game Informer 183 (July 2008): 101.

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