Women Warriors and National Heroes by Boyd Cothran
This open access volume presents women warriors and hero cults from a number of cultures since the early modern period. The first truly global study of women warriors, individual chapters examine figures such as Joan of Arc in Cairo, revenging daughters in Samurai Japan, a transgender Mexican revolutionary and WWII Chinese spies.
Exploring issues of violence, gender fluidity, memory and nation-building, the authors discuss how these real or imagined female figures were constructed and deployed in different national and transnational contexts.
Divided into four parts, they explore how women warriors and their stories were created, consider the issue of the violent woman, discuss how these female figures were gendered, and highlight the fate of women warriors who live on. The chapters illustrate the ways in which female fighters have figured in nation-building stories and in the ordering or re-ordering of gender politics, and give the history of women fighters a critical edge. Exploring women as military actors, women after war, and the strategic use of women’s stories in national narratives, this intellectually innovative volume provides the first global treatment of women warriors and their histories.
The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com.
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Rome after Sulla
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Arms, Men and Society in Roman Judaea
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Image-Making-India
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A Return to the Object
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Qur'anic Hermeneutics
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Planning Enforcement
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John's Transformation of Mark
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Why the World Needs Anthropologists
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Modernist Magazines and the Social Ideal
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Gustave Caillebotte as Worker, Collector, Painter
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Personal Injury Limitation Law
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The UK and EMEA Corporate Counsel Handbook
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Stylistic Deceptions in Online News
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Global Animation Theory
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The Most Beautiful Job in the World
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Orbital Poetics
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Making Dinner
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Jesus as Mirrored in John
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The Pseudepigraphal Letters to the Thessalonians
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Proteins, Pathologies and Politics
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Jesus against the Scribal Elite
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Reassembling Democracy
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Poverty in the Early Church and Today
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Food Justice and Narrative Ethics
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August Strindberg and Visual Culture
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Postcolonial Commentary and the Old Testament
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A Global History of Convicts and Penal Colonies
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Making Taste Public
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Lineages and Advancements in Material Culture Studies
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The Material Subject
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What are Exhibitions for? An Anthropological Approach
Boyd Cothran is Associate Professor of History at York University, Canada. The co-editor-in-chief of The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era he has written extensively on Indigenous peoples and the construction of national identity in the US.
Joan Judge is Professor of History at York University, Canada. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and has authored three books in the field of modern Chinese cultural history, with particular emphases on print culture, gender history and knowledge culture.
Adrian Shubert is University Professor of History at York University, Canada. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, he has held a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Killam Research fellowship, and is a recipient of Spain’s Order of Civil Merit.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781350121133 |
| ISBN 10 | 1350121134 |
| Title | Women Warriors and National Heroes |
| Author | Boyd Cothran |
| Series | Criminal Practice Ser |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Year published | 2020-02-20 |
| Number of pages | 272 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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