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Die komparatistische Studie betrachtet den gynozentrischen Roman des 18. Jahrhunderts und den des 19. Jahrhunderts unter gemeinsamen Perspektiven. Zentral steht die Frage nach der Bedeutung der Geschlechtscharakter-Anthropologie für das 19. Jahrhundert. Anhand prominenter Texte der deutschen, englischen und französischen Romanliteratur, die als Verführungsromane weibliche Heldinnen in den Fokus stellen, wird der These einer Kollision von Verstand und Gefühl als spezifisch weibliches Dilemma nachgegangen. Frauen werden dem maßgeblichen Geschlechtscharakterdiskurs zufolge zwar einerseits als emotional definiert, das aktive Ausleben dieser und weiterer ,natürlich weiblicher' Dispositionen bleibt andererseits aber verpönt. Der Vergleich fiktionaler Entwürfe von Weiblichkeit mit normativen Idealen, wie sie zeitgenössische Erziehungsratgeber und Anstandslehren konzipieren, lässt Kontinuitäten und Diskontinuitäten des westeuropäischen Romans in seinen diskursgeschichtlichen Kontexten zutage treten.

European fiction --- Gender identity in literature. --- Heroines in literature. --- Emotions in literature. --- Heroines --- History and criticism.

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Dangerous Curves: Action Heroines, Gender, Fetishism, and Popular Culture addresses the conflicted meanings associated with the figure of the action heroine as she has evolved in various media forms since the late 1980's. Jeffrey A. Brown discusses this immensely popular character type as an example of, and challenge to, existing theories about gender as a performance identity. Her assumption of heroic masculine traits combined with her sexualized physical depiction demonstrates the ambiguous nature of traditional gender expectations and indicates a growing awareness of more aggressive and...

Women heroes in motion pictures. --- Heroines in literature. --- Comic books, strips, etc. --- Women in popular culture. --- History and criticism. --- Popular culture --- Women --- Heroines --- Motion pictures --- Public opinion

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In recent years, the topic of ancient Greek hero cult has been the focus of considerable discussion among classicists. Little attention, however, has been paid to female heroized figures. Here Deborah Lyons argues for the heroine as a distinct category in ancient Greek religious ideology and daily practice. The heroine, she believes, must be located within a network of relations between male and female, mortal and immortal. Using evidence ranging from Homeric epic to Attic vase painting to ancient travel writing, she attempts to re-integrate the feminine into our picture of Greek notions of the hero. According to Lyons, heroines differ from male heroes in several crucial ways, among which is the ability to cross the boundaries between mortal and immortal. She further shows that attention to heroines clarifies fundamental Greek ideas of mortal/immortal relationships.The book first discusses heroines both in relation to heroes and as a separate religious and mythic phenomenon. It examines the cultural meanings of heroines in ritual and representation, their use as examples for mortals, and their typical "biographies." The model of "ritual antagonism," in which two mythic figures represented as hostile share a cult, is ultimately modified through an exploration of the mythic correspondences between the god Dionysos and the heroines surrounding him, and through a rethinking of the relationship between Iphigeneia and Artemis. An appendix, which identifies more than five hundred heroines, rounds out this lively work.Originally published in 1997.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Cults --- Mythology, Greek. --- Heroines in literature. --- Sex role in literature. --- Women --- Immortality in literature. --- Women and literature --- Greek literature --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- Greek mythology --- Heroines --- Mythology --- History and criticism. --- Greece --- Religion.

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In nearly all societies and epochs, the heroic is gendered on many levels. However, social and cultural production of the heroic cannot be understood solely through the lens of masculinity, nor does it make sense to regard women or femininity merely as exceptions. Rather, it is important to take the relational character seriously. This volume is the first attempt to employ gender as an analytical category for heroism research. Using diverse approaches from the humanities, gender serves as a tracer of the heroic and as an instrument for examining its historical contexts, its medial and performative manifestations, as well as its temporal cycles and transformations. With the help of the gender category and its attributes, the heroic is reevaluated.

Helden --- Heroic --- Gender --- Feminism and literature --- Heroines in literature --- Heroines in music --- Women --- Feminism and literature. --- Forschung. --- Geschlechterforschung. --- Geschlechterrolle. --- Heroines in literature. --- Heroines in music. --- Heroismus. --- Women. --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- Heldentum --- Heldenmut --- Music --- Heroines as literary characters --- Heroines --- Geschlechtsrolle --- Soziales Geschlecht --- Soziale Rolle --- Geschlechtsunterschied --- Gender Studies --- Gender-Forschung --- Geschlechterfrage --- Geschlechtertheorie --- Gender-Theorie --- Gendertheorie --- Genderstudie --- Geschlechterverhältnis --- Forschung --- Wissenschaftliche Forschung --- Forschungen --- Wissenschaft --- Literature --- Literature and feminism --- Social and moral questions --- Women authors

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This edited collection offers a variety of perspectives focusing on representation of women as heroines across printed media. In addition, the book extends the discussion of heroines for the broader audience, which provides a much needed, more nuanced discussion of this topic across American popular culture. Contributors go beyond the expected account of women as mothers, wives, warriors, goddesses, and damsels in distress, to provide innovative analysis that situates heroines within culture, revealing them as tough, self-sufficient, and breaking the bounds of gender expectations i

Women in literature. --- Heroines in literature. --- Women in popular culture. --- Women in mass media. --- Comic books, strips, etc. --- Femmes --- Héroïnes --- Bandes dessinées --- History and criticism. --- Dans la littérature. --- Dans la culture populaire. --- Dans les médias. --- Histoire et critique. --- Mass media --- Popular culture --- Women --- Heroines --- Woman (Christian theology) in literature --- Women in drama --- Women in poetry --- Public opinion