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For more than 3,000 years, the Amazons have been a recognised symbol that transcends mythology and has influenced history itself. The image of the powerful warrior woman who defied the established patriarchal order proved so compelling that it became permanently enshrined in the collective imagination-first through oral tradition and later through texts and images. The contributions in this volume explore how this image has endured through the lens of classical reception. From Wonder Woman to the war in Ukraine, and across diverse genres such as video games, fashion, warfare and documentary film, the Amazonian archetype has evolved beyond anything once imagined. Today, however, we are witnessing a true transformation. No longer embodying the negative traits the Greeks once ascribed to them, the Amazons have become a symbol of strength, resilience and empowerment-a model for women's rights in a global society and an icon of feminism and the LGBTQIA+ community.
Divided into three parts, this book analyses how the image of the Amazon has, at different times and in different contexts, been marginalised, put on a pedestal and globalised. For the first time, media case studies and lived histories are examined to compare and contrast modern frameworks with each other and with the 'original' Amazonian iconography. What emerges is a concept of the 'Amazon' as a modern paradigm that speaks as strongly to contemporary society as it did to the ancients, but with a very different meaning.
Divided into three parts, this book analyses how the image of the Amazon has, at different times and in different contexts, been marginalised, put on a pedestal and globalised. For the first time, media case studies and lived histories are examined to compare and contrast modern frameworks with each other and with the 'original' Amazonian iconography. What emerges is a concept of the 'Amazon' as a modern paradigm that speaks as strongly to contemporary society as it did to the ancients, but with a very different meaning.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title Page
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Viral Amazons – The First Influencers in History
- Part I Marginalization and Hypersexualization
- 1 Amazon Creation Across Female- and Male-Centred Texts
- 2 The Sexual Katabasis of a 1990s Amazon: Sex-Positivity and the Male Gaze in Artemis: Requiem (1996)
- 3 Where Are the Amazons? Absences and Othering of Female and Feminine Agency in Audiovisual Adaptations of the Trojan War Narrative
- 4 The Myth of the Amazons Is Always in Fashion
- 5 Controllers and Chainmail: Amazons’ Costuming in Contemporary Video Games
- 6 Artbook Muses: Hypersexualized Amazons Through the Francophone Bande Dessinée
- Part II Heroic Warrior Women
- 7 Playing the Amazons and Warrior Women in Table-top Games
- 8 Wonder Women: Searching for Amazons in Myth, Archaeology and Contemporary Media
- 9 The Coloniality of Power in the Reception of the Amazons in the Brazilian Wonder Woman
- 10 Native American Amazons: Indigenizing Wonder Woman and Beyond
- 11 Amazons in Wonderland: The Persistence of Memory in Dalí’s Dreams
- 12 Surviving a World of Men: Indigenous African Resistance and the Legacy of Amazonian Reception in The Woman King (2022)
- Part III LGBTQIA+ and Feminist Icons
- 13 ‘Badass Babes’ in Pop Culture: A New Embodiment?
- 14 The Documentary Genre as a Social Shaper: The Representation of Amazon Women as Feminist Icons in Contemporary Documentary Films
- 15 Amazons for War and Peace: Twenty-first-Century Movements for Women’s Rights in Ukraine
- 16 The New Ukrainian Amazons: Fighting from Herakles to Putin
- Bibliography
- Index
- Copyright