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The lives of 25 extraordinary women ranging from Aphrodite, Goddess of Love, through to Mary Bryant, drawn from myths and legends, history and folklore. Companion volume to the author's TGreat Deeds of Superheroes'.
A collection of stories drawn from myth and legend, history and folklore, celebrates the courage, intelligence, boldness, forcefulness, and strength of extraordinary women--from Aphrodite to Pocahantas.
This one-stop cross-cultural selective guide to recent retellings of myths and hero tales for children and young adults will enable teachers and library media specialists to select comparative myths and tales from various, mostly non-European cultures. The focus is on stories from Native America, Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Central and South America, and Oceania. The Guide contains extensively annotated entries on 189 books of retellings of myths and hero tales, both ancient and modern, from around the world published between 1985 and 1996. Represented are 1,455 stories suitable for use with young people from mid-elementary through high school. The entries, arranged alphabetically by writer, contain complete bibliographic data, age and grade levels, and evaluative annotations. Seven indexes—title, author, illustrator, culture, story type, name, and grade level—make searching easy. The story type index will enable teachers to select comparative myths and tales from different cultures on more than 50 types of myths and hero tales. Among the many myth types cited are origin of human beings and the world, comparative social customs and rituals, natural and heavenly phenomena, animal appearance and behavior, searches and quests, and tricksters. Among the hero tale types are fools and buffoons, kings and queens, warriors, monster slayers, important female figures, magicians, voyagers and adventurers, and spiritual leaders. The Guide concludes with a bibliography of retellings published earlier that have come to be considered standard works.
This famous work by the respected Muslim Scholar Allama Syed Sulaiman Nadvi, gives a brief account of heroic deeds of a few Muslim women who have, by their outstanding acts of valour courage and bravery carved for themselves a prominent place in Islamic history. An extremely informative book.
While women in modern Western society have spent the last century fighting for equal rights, women in ancient Ireland were accorded legal equality with men. Under the Brehon Laws women had the right to own property, rule territories, seek an education, and sue for divorce. Celtic women were also warriors, frequently taking up arms and marching into battle with their brothers and husbands.
Childrens Literature is now a recognised area of study, mainly PG but also on undergraduate education courses. Makes literary theory accessible to teachers
Stories for young and old with dramatic illustrations about 25 women from the history and legends of Greece, China, Israel, Arabia, Britain, Europe and the Amerindians. The heroines, rulers, holy women, courageous survivors, enchantresses and goddesses include Pocahontas, Boadicea, Hildegard of Bingen, Atalanta, Scheherazade, Guanyin and Aphrodite. By the author of the 'History of Australian Children's Literature' and illustrated by the winner of the 1986 Hans Christian Andersen Illustration Award. With an introduction, bibliography and an index.
A daring and timely feminist retelling of The Iliad from the perspective of the women of Troy who endured it—an extraordinary follow up to The Silence of the Girls from the Booker Prize-winning author of The Regeneration Trilogy and “one of contemporary literature’s most thoughtful and compelling writers" (The Washington Post). Troy has fallen and the victorious Greeks are eager to return home with the spoils of an endless war—including the women of Troy themselves. They await a fair wind for the Aegean. It does not come, because the gods are offended. The body of King Priam lies unburied and desecrated, and so the victors remain in suspension, camped in the shadows of the city they destroyed as the coalition that held them together begins to unravel. Old feuds resurface and new suspicions and rivalries begin to fester. Largely unnoticed by her captors, the one time Trojan queen Briseis, formerly Achilles's slave, now belonging to his companion Alcimus, quietly takes in these developments. She forges alliances when she can, with Priam's aged wife the defiant Hecuba and with the disgraced soothsayer Calchas, all the while shrewdly seeking her path to revenge.