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Relief of paired fighters Amazonia and Achillea, found at Halicarnassus, identified as women by their gendered names The gladiatrix ( pl. : gladiatrices ) was a female gladiator of ancient Rome . Like their male counterparts, gladiatrices fought each other, or wild animals, to entertain audiences at games and festivals ( ludi ).
A Tyrrhenian amphora, depicting an Amazonomachy - Heracles fights Andromache, Telamon fights Ainipe and Iphis fights Panariste, c. 570 BC, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Hippolyte was an Amazon queen killed by Heracles, who had set out to obtain the queen's magic belt in a task he was to accomplish as one of the Labours of Heracles. Although ...
"The Last Amazon of Dahomey" is a play in the Booker Prize-winning novel of 2019 called Girl, Woman, Other, by Bernardine Evaristo. The Ahosi are featured in the 2021 graphic novel Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts by Rebecca Hall and Hugo Martinez.
Now defunct promotions that featured female fighters were Strikeforce and EliteXC. [5] There has been a growing awareness of women in mixed martial arts due to popular female fighters and personalities such as Amanda Nunes, Megumi Fujii, Gina Carano, Ronda Rousey, Miesha Tate, Holly Holm, Alexa Grasso, and Joanna Jędrzejczyk and among others. [6]
Former UFC Women's Bantamweight Champion and former Raw Women's Champion Ronda Rousey. Emiko Raika - (Pancrase, Shooto, DEEP) Jessica Rakoczy - (Bellator, TPF, UFC) Germaine de Randamie - (UFC, Strikeforce) Alyona Rassohyna - Bec Rawlings - (UFC, Invicta) Elise Reed - Elena Reid - Marion Reneau - (UFC, TPF) Amanda Ribas -
Paulina Wiśniewska (born November 27, 1998) is a Polish professional mixed martial artist who competes in the women's flyweight division of the Professional Fighters League (PFL). She won the 2024 PFL Europe Women's Flyweight Championship.
To squash the lingering clichés about women, we’re looking at unfiltered photos and stories depicting what it really means to be a female, courtesy of the Women In Real Life Instagram account ...
Stolterer, Helen. "Figures of Female Militancy in Medieval France," Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 16 (1991): 522–549; Taufer, Alison. "The Only Good Amazon is a Converted Amazon: The Woman Warrior and Christianity in the Amadís Cycle" in Playing With Gender: A Renaissance Pursuit ed. by Jean R. Brink et al. pp. 35–51 ...