Article: Islands of Women and Amazons: Representations and Realities

Article: Women warriors: are the tales about Amazons only ...
Dig;  October 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... cities connected with the women warriors. For this ... In ancient Greece, women had few rights and remained ... to be matriarchal (woman-dominated) and egalitarian ... Greek orators advised women not to behave like Amazons or to engage in battle ...

Article: Amazons in the Underworld: Gender, the Body, and Power in ...
CRITIQUE: Studies in Contemporary Fiction;  June 22, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... probably co-authored) Amazons, a novel that has been ... relationships between men and women. That Amazons was published under the ... manifestations--in novels like Amazons, White Noise, and Mao ... representations encourage women to become, in his words ...

Encyclopedia entry: Amazons
The Oxford Companion to the Body;      700+ words ... ... of the known world, ruled by women who fulfilled duties elsewhere ... men. Hence belief grew in the Amazons as a nation of female warriors ... organized and governed entirely by women. The fact that Heracles and ... credited with the conquest of the Amazons has been taken by some to suggest ...

Article: `Last of the Amazons' and `The War of Art: Winning the ...
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  July 10, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... ax for broom. Did Amazons even exist? The author ... But who were the fabled Amazons? In Pressfield's imagination ... Or any recognizable woman at all. And there ... of the sexes, but its Amazons are never convincing ... will be boys. Here's women's liberation at its ...

Article: Islands of Women and Amazons.(Review)(Brief ...
off our backs;  October 1, 2000 ;     651 words ... ... or of the world gone awry. For women, particularly feminists and lesbians ... virtually every use we have made of Amazons, from Ti-Grace Atkinson's ... lesbian feminist journal, to women's studies of Amazons and Amazon-like fictional characters ...

Article: The amazing Amazons; In this unique club they laugh, they ...
Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland);  June 8, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... More than 40,000 women were diagnosed last year ... every year. But more women ARE beating the disease ... how do you face up to a woman's worst nightmare ... in post-menopausal women can raise the levels ... They call themselves The Amazons after the legendary warrior ...

Article: Amazons: The Ms. Behind the Myth?
The Washington Post;  May 12, 1997 ;     700+ words ... ... graves were those of women buried with bronze ... nomads were not the Amazons of myth, she concludes ... skeletons of several women (like those of male ... her feet. Another woman had a bent arrowhead ... may have held the Amazons up as horrible examples ... what happens when women try to ...