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Female Power Boadicea British warrior-queen who led a revolt against the Romans. [Br. Hist.: Brewer Dictionary, 116] maiden-warrior who battles Aeneas’ forces. [Rom. Lit.: Vergil Aeneid] queen of the Amazons; attacked Attica but was defeated by Theseus, who then married her. [Gk. Myth.: Benét, 468] goads Macbeth to murder Duncan and seize power. [Br. Drama: Shakespeare Macbeth] strong-minded female leader of a group of guerrillas in the Spanish Civil War. [Am. Lit.: Hemingway For Whom the Bell Tolls] warrior-queen founded Babylon; legendary conqueror, identified with the goddess Ishtar. [Asiatic Hist.: EB (1963) XX, 315]
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] How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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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. 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. 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. |
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