Heroines in History: A Thousand Faces

ISBN-13: 9780367902209 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 198 str.

Katie Pickles

Opis

Heroines in History: a Thousand Faces moves beyond stories of individual heroines, taking a thematic, synthesising and global in scope approach to challenge previous understandings of heroines in history.

Spis treści

1 Introduction: the heroine with a thousand faces? / 2 Mothers: super-womanly, spiritual Goddess power / 3 Warriors: modern Amazons serving their people / 4 Callings: from selfless to gloriously selfish / 5 Cross-dressing: the limits of binary identity / 6 Death and disability: a heroine’s lot / 7 Feminist icons and role models: white, female and middle class / 8 Glamour: all image and no substance? / 9 Conclusion: plastic body parts, celebrity mothers, Perspex cages and a new Joan of Arc

O autorze

Katie Pickles is Professor of History at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. She was the recipient of a Te Apārangi Royal Society of New Zealand James Cook Research Fellowship for ‘the heroine with a thousand faces.’ Her research examines heroism, intersectional identities and decolonisation. She is also the author of Female Imperialism and National Identity: Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire (2002/09), Transnational Outrage: The Death and Commemoration of Edith Cavell (2007/15) and Christchurch Ruptures (2016).