Women Warriors and National Heroes A Global History

This 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...

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Language:English
Published: Bloomsbury Academic 2019
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