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Hannah Abbott. Vanessa Abrams. Irene Adler. Aunt Agatha. Akivasha. Alice (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland) Cathy Ames. Cherry Ames. Anactoria.
Women in Shakespeare is a topic within the especially general discussion of Shakespeare 's dramatic and poetic works. Main characters such as Dark Lady of the sonnets have elicited a substantial amount of criticism, which received added impetus during the second-wave feminism of the 1960s. A considerable number of book-length studies and ...
M. Queen Mab. Lady Macbeth. Lady Macduff. Margaret of Anjou. Maria (Twelfth Night) Miranda (The Tempest)
A. List of female action heroes and villains. List of American Girl characters.
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.
Bradamante is depicted as one of the greatest female knights in literature. She is an expert fighter, and wields a magical lance that unhorses anyone it touches. She is also one of the main characters in several novels including Italo Calvino's surrealistic, highly ironic novel Il Cavaliere inesistente (The Nonexistent Knight).
Feminism. Feminist literary criticism is literary criticism informed by feminist theory, or more broadly, by the politics of feminism. It uses the principles and ideology of feminism to critique the language of literature. This school of thought seeks to analyze and describe the ways in which literature portrays the narrative of male domination ...
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 ...