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The strong female character is a stock character, the opposite of the damsel in distress. In the first half of the 20th century, the rise of mainstream feminism and the increased use of the concept in the later 20th century have reduced the concept to a standard item of pop culture fiction.
Pages in category "Female characters in literature" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 462 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Image credits: Heiminator #5. Dana Scully. Even caused an uptic of women in STEM studies. Caira_Ru: I’m very biased, because I was at a pretty critical age in my own development when Scully and ...
Varga-Dobai says that female characters in children's novels began to be portrayed as more daring, active, and independent, in order to provide girls with a new image of an ideal female. [9] The idea of a strong, independent female character in children's books plays into the topic of gender representation.
A stock character is a dramatic or literary character representing a generic type in a conventional, simplified manner and recurring in many fictional works. [1] The following list labels some of these stereotypes and provides examples. Some character archetypes, the more universal
In the late 1800s and early 1900s, a new breed of women started to emerge from the depths of circus tents around the world: the strong-woman. These women quickly drew large crowds of circus lovers ...
The characteristics of idealization and self-insertion are usually cited by fans as hallmarks of a Mary Sue character. [7] Gender studies researcher Catherine Driscoll writes that "the Mary Sue is generally associated with girl writers who have trouble distancing themselves from the source text enough to write about it rather than write themselves into it". [19]
There have been female characters in forms of strong woman warriors, or even as a main character who can think for herself. [11] Examples of these gender rules being broken can be seen in many texts such as “The Lord of the Rings” by J.R.R. Tolkien and even “The Man in the High Castle” by Philip K. Dick. As more and more readers and ...