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The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts is a book written by Chinese American author Maxine Hong Kingston and published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1976. The book blends autobiography with old Chinese folktales. The Woman Warrior won the National Book Critics Circle Award and was named one of TIME magazine's top nonfiction books of the ...
No Name Woman (essay), 1975; The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts, 1976; China Men, Knopf, 1980; Hawai'i One Summer, 1987; Through the Black Curtain, 1987; Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book, 1989; To Be the Poet, 2002; The Fifth Book of Peace, 2003; Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace, 2006; I Love a Broad Margin to My Life, 2011
The woman warrior is part of a long tradition in many different cultures including Chinese and Japanese martial arts films, but their reach and appeal to Western audiences is possibly much more recent, coinciding with the greatly increased number of female heroes in American media since 1990.
While the warriors were standing to fight the U.S. Cavalry on the American side of Rio Grande, Lozen (the woman warrior, younger sister to chief Victorio) led the women and the children to the Mexican side of the river, then left Gouyen, who was already a skilled fighter and Lozen's younger aid, in charge of them to go back to the battle ...
Lynn, John. "Women, Armies, and Warfare in Early Modern Europe" (Cambridge University Press, 2008) McLaughlin, Megan. "The Woman Warrior: Gender, Warfare and Society in Medieval Europe." Women's Studies (1990) 17: 193–209. Martino, Gina M. Women at War in the Borderlands of the Early American Northeast. (University of North Carolina Press, 2018).
Lorde describes herself as a "Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet", and addresses the difficulties in communication between Black and white women. [3] [4] The collection is made up of five sections: a preface by Reni Eddo-Lodge, an introduction by Sara Ahmed, 13 essays, 17 poems, and a Note on the Text. As the Note on the Text states, many of ...
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The publication was cited for spreading awareness on the issue of domestic abuse and Warrior received numerous offers of help from other women who read the book. [11] The last edition was published in 1989. [2] Warrior has developed a series of posters on international women's rights which honor women activists from around the world. [2]