Includes bibliographical references (pages 270-297) and index.
Contents
Staking out the battlefield -- Amazons : warriors or women? -- Many ways to die : women warriors and national myth -- Judith : asking the big questions -- Models for the men : heroic maidens from Schiller to Brecht -- Un-becoming a woman : the woman warrior as cross-dresser -- Women's imaginings : women warriors in fiction -- Women's voices : less beast, more beauty.
