Heroines of Popular Culture

Heroines of Popular Culture PDF Author: Pat Browne
Publisher: Popular Press
ISBN: 9780879724092
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 198

Book Description
From life and literature come the heroines of this volume. The essays demonstrate that women can fit the role of hero as defined by Joseph Campbell: "A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder, fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won, the hero comes back from this mysterious adventure with the power to bestow boons on his fellow man." Contributors to this volume cover a wide range of heroic women.

100 Canadian Heroines

100 Canadian Heroines PDF Author: Merna Forster
Publisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 1550029525
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 321

Book Description
This inspiring collection profiles remarkable women — heroines in science, sport, preaching and teaching, politics, war and peace, arts and entertainment, and more. In 100 Canadian Heroines you’ll meet remarkable women in science, sport, preaching and teaching, politics, war and peace, arts and entertainment, etc. The book is full of amazing facts and fascinating trivia about intriguing figures. Discover some of the many heroines Canada can be proud of. Find out how we’re remembering them. Or not! Augmented by great quotes and photos, this inspiring collection profiles remarkable women — heroines in science, sport, preaching and teaching, politics, war and peace, arts and entertainment, and more. Profiles include mountaineer Phyllis Munday, activist Hide Shimizu, unionist Lea Roback, and movie mogul Mary Pickford.

Heroines of Sport

Heroines of Sport PDF Author: Jennifer Hargreaves
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415228480
Category : Feminist theory
Languages : en
Pages : 302

Book Description
This text looks closely at different groups of women who have become sporting heroines. It focuses on five specific groups of women from places in the world: South African women; Muslim women, Aboriginal women, and lesbian and disabled women.

The New Heroines

The New Heroines PDF Author: Katheryn Wright
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 197

Book Description
This book explores how the next generation of teen and young adult heroines in popular culture are creating a new feminist ideal for the 21st century. Representations of a teenage girl who is unique or special occur again and again in coming-of-age stories. It's an irresistible concept: the heroine who seems just like every other, but under the surface, she has the potential to change the world. This book examines the cultural significance of teen and young adult female characters—the New Heroines—in popular culture. The book addresses a wide range of examples primarily from the past two decades, with several chapters focusing on a specific heroic figure in popular culture. In addition, the author offers a comparative analysis between the "New Woman" figure from the late 19th and early 20th century and the New Heroine in the 21st century. Readers will understand how representations of teenage girls in fiction and nonfiction are positioned as heroic because of their ability to find out about themselves by connecting with other people, their environment, and technology.

Heroines of Fiction

Heroines of Fiction PDF Author: William Dean Howells
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 350

Book Description

Secondary Heroines in Nineteenth-century British and American Novels

Secondary Heroines in Nineteenth-century British and American Novels PDF Author: Jennifer Camden
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 9780754666790
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 194

Book Description
Taking up works by Samuel Richardson, James Fenimore Cooper, Sir Walter Scott, and Catharine Maria Sedgwick, among others, Jennifer B. Camden examines the role of secondary heroines in early British and American novels. By showing that they are a site for the displaced anxieties produced by the national ideals proffered in the novel, Camden offers an important intervention into the ways in which early novels use character to further ideologies of race, class, sex, and gender.
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