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Female Power

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Female Power
Boadicea
British warrior-queen who led a revolt against the Romans. [Br. Hist.: Brewer Dictionary, 116]
Camilla
maiden-warrior who battles Aeneas’ forces. [Rom. Lit.: Vergil Aeneid]
Hippolyta
queen of the Amazons; attacked Attica but was defeated by Theseus, who then married her. [Gk. Myth.: Benét, 468]
Macbeth, Lady
goads Macbeth to murder Duncan and seize power. [Br. Drama: Shakespeare Macbeth]
Pilar
strong-minded female leader of a group of guerrillas in the Spanish Civil War. [Am. Lit.: Hemingway For Whom the Bell Tolls]
Semiramis
warrior-queen founded Babylon; legendary conqueror, identified with the goddess Ishtar. [Asiatic Hist.: EB (1963) XX, 315]
Valkyries
warlike virgins who ride into battle to select, from the heroes to be slain, those worthy of dining with Odin in Valhalla. [Scand. Myth.: Benét, 1046]
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In the case of Eve Sussman's recent filmic effort, a reference to Jacques-Louis David's painting, The Intervention of the Sabine Women, the camera eye meanders through several visual skeins suggesting subterranean male and female power struggles before delivering an operatic, dust-filled climax that is more Pina Bausch than down-and-dirty ravishment.
All about Eve's epic women by Sweeney, Kathleen / Afterimage
As this discussion reveals, there is a strong element of female choice and female power that is directly correlated with the type and extent of sexual dimorphisms in animals.
The peahen's tale, or dressing our parts at work by Seaman, Julie A. / Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy
These women thus sent a message of female power to the whole working-class community: lads, lovers, husbands, co-workers, and overseers: all of them once "cheeky buggers.
Yorkshire lasses and their lads: sexuality, sexual customs, and ... by Blewett, Mary / Journal of Social History
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