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Rankin, Lindsay E., and Alice H. Eagly. "Is His Heroism Hailed and Hers Hidden? Women, Men, and The Social Construction of Heroism." Psychology of Women Quarterly 32, no. 4 (2008): 414–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1471-6402.2008.00455.x.

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Two studies examined how the social construction of heroism affects the representation of women and men as heroes. In the first study, community participants defined heroism or identified heroes. Although the most common defining elements of heroism were benefiting others, acting selflessly, and confronting risk, participants reported more male than female public heroes. However, when naming heroes whom they personally know, participants represented women and men equally. In the second study, undergraduates read a scenario describing a male or female protagonist who confronted high or low risk

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한혜원. "Heroism of Female Protagonists in Digital Games." Korean Classical Woman Literature Studies ll, no. 37 (2018): 67–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.17090/kcwls.2018..37.67.

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Soliman, Mounira. "Mutations of Heroism: The Case of the Egyptian Superheroine." Studi Magrebini 18, no. 2 (2020): 265–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2590034x-12340031.

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Abstract The history of heroism in Egyptian culture has mostly been perceived as a male attribute, centering on the figure of the male hero, and generally excluding figures of female heroines. In this article, I explore the representation of one type of female heroism, the rising phenomenon of the superheroine. In contrast to popular definitions of heroism connected to the superhero genre wherein heroism is perceived as an extra-terrestrial superpower, recent depictions of superheroines in Egyptian popular culture focus on representing the mundane aspect of the lives of these characters, leadi

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Dimas Pramata Sukma, Nazla Maharani Umaya, and Harjito Harjito. "RESEPSI HEROISME NOVEL SANG PENGGESEK BIOLA KARYA YUDHI HERWIBOWO BERDASARKAN INTERPRETASI GENDER." CENDEKIA: Jurnal Ilmu Sosial, Bahasa dan Pendidikan 2, no. 3 (2022): 189–202. http://dx.doi.org/10.55606/cendikia.v2i3.783.

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The problems of this research are (1) How is the reception of students of SMK Negeri 1 Dukuhturi regarding the ideology of heroism in the novel Sang Penggesek Biola?, (2) How is the ideology of heroism in the novel Sang Penggesek Biola?. The objectives of this study are (1) Describe the reception of students of SMK Negeri 1 Dukuhturi regarding the ideology of heroism in the novel Sang Penggesek Biola, (2) Describe the content of the ideology of heroism in the novel Sang Penggesek Biola. The research population was 32 students. Data collection methods used are interviews, questionnaires, and re

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Zhu, Yuanyuan. "Perceptions of Female Heroism from Two Heroines: Portia and Isabel." International Journal of Languages, Literature and Linguistics 5, no. 1 (2019): 47–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.18178/ijlll.2019.5.1.202.

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Baym, Nina, and Lee R. Edwards. "Psyche as Hero: Female Heroism and Fictional Form." American Literature 57, no. 1 (1985): 162. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2926334.

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Hodossy-Takács, Előd. "A Survey of Female Heroism in Jewish Tradition." Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Theologia Reformata Transylvanica 68, no. 2 (2023): 24–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.24193/subbtref.68.2.02.

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Did warrior heroines exist in the Hebrew tradition? The answer is a seemingly reassuring yes, but the paper shows that the topos of female heroism was not a popular theme in Jewish tradition. To imagine ancient war scenes according to depictions in modern media can be misleading; the central purpose of this brief survey is to give a glimpse into this topic. Keywords: heroines, Book of Joshua, Book of Judges, Book of Judith, Josephus, wars in Antiquity

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Goodman, J. Robyn, Lisa L. Duke, and John Sutherland. "Olympic Athletes and Heroism in Advertising: Gendered Concepts of Valor?" Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly 79, no. 2 (2002): 374–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/107769900207900208.

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This analysis of television advertisements aired during NBC's telecast of the 2000 NBC Summer Olympics examined advertisers' use of Jungian-based concepts of heroism and gendered concepts of heroism. Using traditional archetypes of heroes—the Innocent, Orphan, Martyr, Wanderer, Warrior, and Magician—the study analyzed commercials featuring Olympic athletes. Findings were that male and female athletes were equally portrayed as Warriors. However, male athletes were more likely to be portrayed as preparing for and doing battle successfully while female athletes were more likely to be celebrated f

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Rocks, Carolin. "Szenen einer Gattung." Artes 3, no. 1 (2024): 125–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.30965/27727629-20240007.

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Abstract The paper discusses metapoetic reflections in German drama around 1800. It argues that Goethe, Schiller and Kleist challenge the tragic form by blurring the differences to lyric and epic poetry. The starting point is the thesis that the paradigm of heroism, which has defined the tragic genre from the very beginning, falls into crisis. Both contemporary poetics and literary texts demonstrate this development: Heroism neither functions as an ideal way to constructing a character nor of organizing political plots which successfully rely on and account for personal greatness. To illustrat

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Gheeraert-Graffeuille, Claire. "Margaret Cavendish’s Femmes Fortes: The Paradoxes of Female Heroism." XVII-XVIII, no. 73 (December 31, 2016): 243–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/1718.800.

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조필호 and Choi,In-Sook. "Study on family-oriented female heroism in animation「Mulan」." Journal of Korea Design Forum ll, no. 22 (2009): 367–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.21326/ksdt.2009..22.034.

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Sicherman, Barbara. "Reading and Ambition: M. Carey Thomas and Female Heroism." American Quarterly 45, no. 1 (1993): 73. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2713053.

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O'Reilly, Julie D. "The Wonder Woman Precedent: Female (Super)Heroism on Trial." Journal of American Culture 28, no. 3 (2005): 273–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1542-734x.2005.00211.x.

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He, Min. "Imaging and Inventing Self: Constructing Heroines Through Translation in Late Qing China." Journal of Contemporary Educational Research 6, no. 10 (2022): 115–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.26689/jcer.v6i10.4419.

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A fad for female heroism emerged in the late Qing China as women were urgently mobilized to undertake the mission of ‘strengthening the nation and preserving the race.’ However, women reaching the modern standards of heroines were almost absent in China. Western heroines were then introduced into China as exemplars for Chinese women to emulate. The story of Madame Roland, the most prestigious Western heroine at that time, was appropriated to the political ends. The male-coded virtues of her were highlighted in conformity to the standards of heroines in late Qing China: hero-worship, patriotism

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Smarovoz, Iryna. "THE CONCEPT OF FEMALE HEROIZM IN THE PERSPEKTIVE OF THE CHRISTIAN WORLDVIEW (BASED ON THE COLLECTION OF REPORTS BY AGATA PUŚCIKOWSKA “SISTERS OF HOPE”)." Polish Studies of Kyiv, no. 40 (2024): 560–70. https://doi.org/10.17721/psk.2024.40.560-570.

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The current social and cultural realities in Ukrainian society, caused by the war with Russia, have increased the interest in the themes of heroes, heroism, and what it means to be heroic. Modern Ukrainian writers are modeling new concepts of heroism, composing them through the lens of war events in Ukraine. This phenomenon requires literary analysis. This article explores the concept of female heroism through the reports in the book “Sisters of Hope” by A. Puścikowska. It focuses on the Christian aspect of heroism, given that the main characters are nuns. The reports depict events from the ea

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Ma, Iris. "Imagining Female Heroism: Three Tales of the Female Knight-Errant in Republican China." Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review 8, no. 2 (2019): 661–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ach.2019.0023.

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KARAOULAS, APOSTOLOS. "THE ABSENCE OF FEMALE HEROES IN EUROPEAN EDUCATION: CONTRADICTIONS AND PROGRESS IN HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT." International Journal of Research in Education Humanities and Commerce 06, no. 01 (2025): 661–70. https://doi.org/10.37602/ijrehc.2025.6144.

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This study examines the role of female heroes in European educational curricula and their social representation. The analysis focuses on the presence and absence of these women in educational textbooks, highlighting the reasons why female heroes remain marginalized in educational and historical narratives. Specifically, through a thorough review of bibliographic sources, the study analyzes the inequality in the representation of heroism in historical and cultural narratives, where heroism is often equated with traditionally masculine traits such as leadership and strategic thinking. In contras

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Wood, Diane S. "Female Heroism in the Ice Age: Jean Auel’s Earth Children." Extrapolation 27, no. 1 (1986): 33–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/extr.1986.27.1.33.

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MAGOULICK, MARY. "Frustrating Female Heroism: Mixed Messages in Xena, Nikita, and Buffy." Journal of Popular Culture 39, no. 5 (2006): 729–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-5931.2006.00326.x.

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Langis, Unhae. "Virtuous Viragos: Female Heroism and Ethical Action in Shakespearean Drama." Literature Compass 7, no. 6 (2010): 397–411. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1741-4113.2010.00698.x.

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Hawkins, Tom. ""Theresa, a Haytien Tale" (1828): Classical Allusions and Female Heroism." Journal of Haitian Studies 31, no. 1 (2025): 40–63. https://doi.org/10.1353/jhs.2025.a966104.

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Abstract: This article analyzes the role of the Roman hero Aeneas and the patriarch Lot from the Hebrew Bible in "Theresa, a Haytien Tale" (1828), which describes a fictionalized episode in the Haitian Revolution (1791–1804) and is the first known work of fiction composed by a Black author in the United States. I argue that the story presents a radically feminist re-gendering of Aeneas and Lot. This analysis engages contemporary scholarship on "Theresa" in two ways. First, in terms of gender (which has been the primary focus of most scholarship on this short story), my reading of the masculine

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Radha, M. "Female Education and Marital Problems in Thilagavathi’s Stories." Shanlax International Journal of Tamil Research 4, no. 4 (2020): 28–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.34293/tamil.v4i4.2333.

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Themes in the history of Tamil literature adapt to the contemporary context. Literature is created by people with different levels of life. Political economics, socio-cultural and spiritual movements that arise from time to time affect literary creation. History in the history of literature is changing according to the context of the period in which the love of heroism and devotion to the religion of liberation in the world of literature.

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Udasmoro, Wening. "Perempuan dan Spiritualisme: Meredefinisi Image Jeanne D'Arc Dalam Roman Historis Barat." Musãwa Jurnal Studi Gender dan Islam 6, no. 2 (2008): 257. http://dx.doi.org/10.14421/musawa.2008.62.257-269.

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Jeanne d'Arc has been the wellknown female hero in the Westem tradition. However, the opinion about this hero has varied according to how people interprete her existence. She was known using God's voice in order to convince the French army in defeating British troops. Some of the interpreters have argued that she used that voice to manipulate French troops in order to get her own glory. Others have argued that she was a real hero that passed over the French men's heroism. This article attempts to explore this female heroism from spiritual point of view. It is argued that the spiritual approach

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Yang, Kexin. "The Role of Values: A Study of Female Heroes in Chinese and American Movies." Communications in Humanities Research 65, no. 1 (2025): 16–21. https://doi.org/10.54254/2753-7064/2024.19776.

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Hero is a figure who embodies the national spirit and represents the values and spirit of a nation. With the development of film production, there has been a notable increase in the number of people who have focused their attention on female heroes. This paper employs Hofstadter's dimension framework to elucidate the distinctions between female heroes in Chinese and American movies. In order to facilitate a comparative analysis of the portrayal of female heroes in Chinese and American movies, four war-themed movies were selected for this study. Ultimately, it is found that values exert the gre

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Diefenthaeler, Samantha Da Silva. "Notes on Penthesilea: The marks of a past of female heroism." Galactica Media: Journal of Media Studies 2, no. 3 (2020): 273–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.46539/gmd.v2i3.103.

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The goal of this paper is to construct an image map that will allow us to understand archetypes characteristics that accompany heroic representations of women in cinema. We will begin with the myth of Penthesilea, an Amazon queen whose tragic loss of feminine power will then guide us in the search for new archetypal deflections. We believe the archetype of Penthesilea signifies new leak points in representation of power as connected to the feminine. To prove that will be one of the main goals of this paper. We insist on highlighting that the images associated with the description of this chara

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Burdett, Sarah. "“Be Mine in Politics”: Charlotte Corday and Anti-Union Allegory in Matthew West’s Female Heroism, A Tragedy in Five Acts (1803)." Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Theatre Research 30, no. 1-2 (2015): 89–108. http://dx.doi.org/10.5325/rectr.30.1-2.0089.

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Abstract This essay draws attention to Irish playwright Matthew West’s rarely studied drama Female Heroism, A Tragedy in Five Acts (1803), performed at the Crow Street Theatre, Dublin, in 1804. The tragedy dramatizes republican woman Charlotte Corday’s murder of Jacobin leader Jean-Paul Marat, committed in July 1793. My paper contends that West’s tragedy blends an explicitly anti-Jacobin narrative, with a covertly embedded strain of Irish oppositional politics. Focusing centrally on West’s incorporation of a fabricated rape scene, which alludes strongly to contemporary allegories of the Act of

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Forbes, Geraldine, and Joyce Lebra-Chapman. "The Rani of Jhansi: A Study of Female Heroism in India." Pacific Affairs 60, no. 4 (1987): 693. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2759217.

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Sharpe, Lesley. "Female Illness and Male Heroism: The Works of Caroline Von Wolzogen." German Life and Letters 52, no. 2 (1999): 184–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1468-0483.00129.

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Olumide, Joshua OKI. "Reclaiming Power: Analysis ofFemale Heroism and Feminist Narratives in Gina Prince-Bythewood's The Woman King." International Journal of Sub-Saharan African Research 3, no. 1 (2025): 400–414. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15101186.

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<strong>Background</strong>: Gina Prince-Bythewood's <em>The Woman King</em> (2022) is a groundbreaking cinematic work that reclaims the narratives of African women warriors. The film explores themes of female heroism, resilience, and liberation while offering a reimagining of historical epics through an Afrocentric and feminist lens. <strong>Objective</strong>: This study aims to examine <em>The Woman King</em> through the lens of feminist theory, focusing on how the film subverts traditional portrayals of women in historical narratives and redefines heroism from a feminist perspect

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Margana, Lacey, Manpal Singh Bhogal, James E. Bartlett, and Daniel Farrelly. "The roles of altruism, heroism, and physical attractiveness in female mate choice." Personality and Individual Differences 137 (January 2019): 126–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2018.08.018.

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Chick, Kay A., Timothy D. Slekar, and Eric P. Charles. "A Gender Analysis of NCSS Notable Picture Book Winners: 2006-2008." Social Studies Research and Practice 5, no. 3 (2010): 21–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ssrp-03-2010-b0002.

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This study provides a gender analysis of National Council for the Social Studies Notable Trade picture book selections suitable for the primary grades from the years 2006-2008. The study examines the number of male and female characters and the presence, or absence of, gender stereotypes relative to characters’ personali-ties, occupations, and behaviors. Results indicate a significant difference in the number of male and female characters, with many more male characters represented. Both males and females frequently performed stereotypical jobs or roles, with no books depicting males in lower

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S, Rathika. "Male Characters in the works of Female Poets during Sangam Period." International Research Journal of Tamil 4, no. 4 (2022): 1–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.34256/irjt2241.

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Men's characteristics have been mentioned in the perspective of women poets during the sangam period. When a men falls in love, to whom does he express it first, what are the efforts taken by the leader to win the love, the efforts of the men to see the heroine during the love period, what is the mood of men suffering from the excess of love, and the infamy that the men gets due to going along with heroine, for all these the love life of men gives answers. It is also said how the lust of a men is in a chastity life. And it can be known that a men's natural love is revealed when he is a father

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Chick, Kay A., and Stacey Corle. "A Gender Analysis of NCSS Notable Trade Books for the Intermediate Grades." Social Studies Research and Practice 7, no. 2 (2012): 1–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ssrp-02-2012-b0001.

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This study provides a gender analysis of National Council for the Social Studies Notable Trade book selections suitable for the intermediate grades from the years 2006-2008. The study examines the number of male versus female characters and the presence, or absence of, gender stereotypes relative to character personalities, occupations, and behaviors. Results indicate a significant difference in the number of male and female characters, with many more male characters represented. Males frequently performed stereotypical jobs or roles with none of the books depicting males in lower status jobs

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Nazihah, Kinanti Arti. "ANALYSIS OF THE HEROISM OF THE FEMALE CHARACTER IN J.S KHAIREN'S NOVEL MELANGKAH." Saksama 2, no. 1 (2023): 82–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.15575/sksm.v2i1.27232.

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The novel Melangkah by J.S. Khairen tells the story of the adventures of four Economics students who vacation in Sumba, East Nusa Tenggara, only to get the order of human lives in their hands. The novel will be reviewed using a literary sociology approach. This study aims to describe and explain the author's worldview, the social and cultural background of the community, and the heroic values contained in the novel Melangkah. This research is library research. This study used qualitative methodology. The problem in this study is how the elements of the structure of the novel build literary wor

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Kirschenbaum, Lisa A., and Nancy M. Wingfield. "Gender and the Construction of Wartime Heroism in Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union." European History Quarterly 39, no. 3 (2009): 465–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0265691409105062.

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During World War II, the Soviet media featured both male and female military heroes as part of an effort to mobilize the entire nation for the protection of hearth and home. The wartime hero cults inspired post-war commemoration in both the Soviet Union and in countries it `liberated' from Nazism. However, no single Communist/Soviet model of commemoration and heroism was imposed on post-World War II Eastern Europe. The relative lack of female heroes constituted one of the most striking differences between the `cults' of the war in the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia. The difference can be expl

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Simanjuntak, Juni Artika. "Female Masculinity in Jungle Cruise Film (2021)." Journal of English Teaching, Applied Linguistics and Literatures (JETALL) 7, no. 1 (2024): 131. http://dx.doi.org/10.20527/jetall.v7i1.18729.

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This research aims to find out the characterization of the main female character and how the character represents female masculinity in the film Jungle Cruise. Researcher analyzed the film through the masculinity theory approach by Peter Lehman and female masculinity by Judith Halberstam. Researcher used qualitative method with descriptive analysis to find findings in the research. The data used is dialogue text and photo scene footage in the Jungle Cruise film. In the characterization analysis, it was found that Dr. Lily has the characteristics of being smart, clever, kind, caring and ambitio

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Dev, Nistha. "GENDERED HEROISMS: A STUDY OF SELECT STORIES FROM THE AMAR CHITRA KATHA." Akademos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Literary and Culture Studies II, no. ii (2022): 61–68. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7097719.

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Recent theoretical developments in literary criticism have not only made us question and revisit the category of children’s literature, but also shed a new look at its purported aims and effects. Therefore, many texts, considered ‘children’s literature’ have now been seen simply as literature that is read not just by children but also by many adults. Anant Pai’s Amar Chitra Katha is one such example of Indian children’s literature whose readership and appeal has never been limited to children. It is therefore fruitful to view Amar Chitra Katha books as texts

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Islambayeva, Z. U. "Artistic searches for actresses who performed female images." Keruen 74, no. 1 (2022): 284–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.53871/2078-8134.2022.1-22.

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In a scientific article, the authors professionally analyzed the process of creating female images on the stage of Kazakh theaters. First of all, in the process of staging a play, the preparation of an actor for the embodiment of a dramatic work on stage, his creative quest is of great importance. Based on the examples of the theoretical system of K.S.Stanislavsky, the most important techniques for the actor in the preparatory work are revealed. Particular attention is paid to the role of schools of character and heroism in the performing arts. It is emphasized that the level of the role is hi

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Quinn, E. "From oppositional readers to positional producers: the making of black female heroism in Coffy." Screen 53, no. 3 (2012): 266–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/screen/hjs019.

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Arvas, İclal Didem. "Reimagining the Hero’s Journey Through SDG Lenses: Myth, Ecology, and Emotional Literacy in the Three Girls Who Changed the World." Journal of Lifestyle and SDGs Review 5, no. 6 (2025): e06479. https://doi.org/10.47172/2965-730x.sdgsreview.v5.n06.pe06479.

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Objective: This study examines how feminist and ecological reimaginings of the hero’s journey reshape archetypal storytelling in children’s literature, with particular focus on the fairytale “Dünyayı Değiştiren Üç Kız” (“Three Girls Who Changed the World”). It explores how such narratives foster inclusive, relational, and ethically grounded forms of heroism. Theoretical Framework: Grounded in Carl Gustav Jung’s theory of the collective unconscious and Joseph Campbell’s concept of the monomyth, the analysis draws upon feminist and ecological literary criticism to recontextualize classical mythi

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Lamari, Lou, and Pauline Greenhill. "Double Trouble: Gender Fluid Heroism in American Children’s Television." Open Cultural Studies 5, no. 1 (2021): 169–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/culture-2020-0127.

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Abstract Gender fluidity makes only rare appearances on North American television, and remains almost completely absent from programming for children. In contrast, transgender characters are making inroads into mainstream North American TV for adults. Still, media depictions of transgender people in the late 1990s and early 2000s have largely shown them as aberrations, having illegible and/or unstable identities, joining mainstream Euro North American society which tends to medicalize and pathologize transgender identities. Thus, too often the representation provided serves only to reinforce b

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S, Subash. "The personality of the poets in the Purananuru." International Research Journal of Tamil 4, no. 2 (2022): 109–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.34256/irjt22214.

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Sangam literature is a time mirror that reflects life events in languages in which the heroism and generosity of four hundred kings have been described. From time immemorial, the Guru has been revered as a deity after his mother and father as the Guru's deity. The idea that only the Guru can heal the family, the student, and the country has been around. In Sanskrit literature, poets had the right to rebuke the king and to give him loving advice to make the country prosperous for the good of a king. In the late nineteenth century, poets primarily portrayed the heroism and generosity of kings

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Poursanati, Susan, and Maryam Neyestani. "Sisyphean or Medusan: The Absurd Hero in Jean Rhys's Good Morning, Midnight and Wide Sargasso Sea." Journal of Modern Literature 47, no. 4 (2024): 144–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.2979/jml.00049.

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Abstract: Jean Rhys's Good Morning, Midnight and Wide Sargasso Sea each create a liminal space wherein the traditional absurd in Camusian sense is both discernable and modified. While the male-female interactions in the novels correspond to the interactive nature of the moment of absurd recognition, the female characters of both novels manifest the same sense of lucidity and constant consciousness that constitutes the essence of absurd heroism. Thus, by casting female heroes as opposed to male ones, Rhys's aforementioned novels introduce the notion of gender and heterogeneity into the absurd.

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Skubach, O. A. "Not Female Arctic: The Plot of the Polar Heroine in Soviet Culture of the 1920–1930s." Critique and Semiotics 38, no. 1 (2020): 338–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.25205/2307-1737-2020-1-338-350.

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The new concept of heroism, created in the Soviet world in the 1930s, relied heavily on Arctic theme. The plots that make up the domestic Arctic epos are well known. There isn’t full-fledged narrative about the polar heroine among them, although a request for its appearance was formed at a certain period in Soviet culture, and even attempts to create it were made. This lacuna deserves to attract the research interest. The Arctic discourse of the 1920–1930s. largely anticipated the space theme of the 1960s; the absence in the pantheon of the Soviet conquerors of the Arctic “polar Tereshkova” ha

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Gransden, Elvira M. "Empowerment and Objectification: Dual Perspectives on Female Superheroes in Contemporary Cinema." Journal of Research in Social Science and Humanities 3, no. 12 (2024): 16–22. https://doi.org/10.56397/jrssh.2024.12.03.

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The rise of female superheroes in contemporary cinema reflects a significant cultural shift toward gender equity and representation. Once relegated to secondary roles, women now take center stage as symbols of empowerment, with characters like Wonder Woman and Captain Marvel redefining heroism through strength, resilience, and agency. These narratives provide vital role models for women and girls, challenging entrenched gender stereotypes and inspiring broader societal change. However, this progress is complicated by persistent patterns of objectification. Female superheroes are often portraye

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Dolcini, Nevia, and Veronica Valle. "Heroines in the East and the West: a comparative semiotic study of female imagery in the anti-pandemic discourse of Italy and China." Chinese Semiotic Studies 20, no. 4 (2024): 647–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/css-2024-2031.

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Abstract This paper explores the war-based narrative of the COVID-19 discourse in Italy and China, with a focus on female imagery and the conceptualization of female heroism. Employing Umberto Eco’s notion of intertextuality, we analyze influential texts – including texts from social media, journalism, and art – emerging from the pandemic’s first wave in China and Italy to examine how female healthcare workers are depicted as pandemic heroes and highlight the complex interplay between gender representation and cultural topoi. Although casting women in heroic roles traditionally dominated by me

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Mim, Moriom Begum, and Asaduzzaman A. S. M. . "Constructing Womanhood in Fagun Haway (2019): Balancing Female Agency within a Patriarchal Narrative." International Journal of Creative Multimedia 6, no. 1 (2025): 161–80. https://doi.org/10.33093/ijcm.2025.6.1.10.

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The Language Movement of 1952 was a pivotal event in Bangladesh’s history, sparking nationalism that eventually led to independence from Pakistan in 1971. Despite women’s active participation in this movement, their contributions have received little acknowledgment in historical narratives. This study examines how the film Fagun Haway (2019) portrays the female protagonist in the context of the 1952 Language Movement. Using a qualitative content analysis of the film guided by Stuart Hall’s (1997) representation theory, the analysis explores whether the film challenges or reinforces gender ster

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Smit, Julie. "How Fantasy Speaks to Adolescent Readers." Study and Scrutiny: Research on Young Adult Literature 4, no. 1 (2020): 52–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.15763/issn.2376-5275.2020.4.1.52-76.

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Many genres of fictional novels are considered groundbreaking for complex plots and psychologically interesting characters. Little attention has been focused on how fantasy can be groundbreaking. This exploratory case study centers on how the five-novel series Percy Jackson & the Olympians, and its five-part sequel The Heroes of Olympus, speaks to a reading community of eighth grade female adolescent readers. This study traces the development of social inquiries of gender inequality, heroism and imperfection, and good and evil from these readers’ interactions with characters and events in

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Farrelly, Daniel, Briar Curley, and Manpal Singh Bhogal. "Are Everyday Heroic or Altruistic Acts More Desirable in Human Mate Choice?" Letters on Evolutionary Behavioral Science 14, no. 1 (2023): 18–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.5178/lebs.2023.103.

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Previous research has shown that heroic acts are valued traits in human mate choice, due to their desirability particularly for long term partners. There is however inconsistency as to whether heroism is a more valued trait than more general forms of altruism, or if both signal the same underlying desired trait in partners. To assess this, the current study looked to directly compare the desirability of heroic and altruistic acts when both are options that individuals may choose. Here, both male and female participants were provided with descriptions of hypothetical individuals who chose to be

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Auliadinanti, Maria Adiska, Zhafira Wulandari, and Khairunnisa Azzahra Wibisono. "Reception analysis of popular feminism in the series Gadis Kretek on Netflix." ProTVF 9, no. 1 (2025): 75–91. https://doi.org/10.24198/ptvf.v9i1.51866.

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Background: Feminism in popular culture is currently growing, one of which is through television or drama series. Active female advocates are increasingly creating female-centered and feminist content. The presence of feminism in popular culture makes this understanding more widely understood by the public. Gadis Kretek is one form of popular culture that can popularize feminism. Purpose: This research aims to find out how the audience interpreted the feminism issues contained in the Gadis Kretek series based on their perspectives and experiences, especially regarding the acceptance of feminis

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