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Heroines in History: A Thousand Faces

Heroines in History: A Thousand Faces

Pickles, Katie

Paperback

General World History

ISBN10: 0367902192
ISBN13: 9780367902193
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jul 21 2022
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.67
Height: 0.45 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

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.

Responding to Joseph Campbell's Hero with a Thousand Faces, Katie Pickles explores the idea of a transcultural heroine archetype that recurs through time. Each chapter addresses an archetypal theme important for heroines in history. The volume offers a new consideration of the often-awkward position of women in history and embeds heroines in the context of their times, as well as interpreting and analysing how their stories are told, re-told and represented at different moments. To do so it recovers and compares some women now forgotten, along with well-known recent heroines and brings together a diversity of women from around the world. Pickles looks at the interplay of gender, race, heredity status, class and politics in different ways and chronicles the emergence of heroines as historical subjects valued for their substance and achievements, rather than as objects valued for their image and celebrity.

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