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The Amazons were a mythical or semi-historical tribe of women warriors. They have often been portrayed in fiction, as in [[Xena: Warrior Princess]], and have had many characters and groups named after them.  
The Amazons were a mythical or semi-historical tribe of women warriors. They have often been portrayed in fiction, as in [[Xena: Warrior Princess]], and have had many characters and groups named after them.  


Portrayals:
==Semi-historical portrayals==
* [[Xena: Warrior Princess]], episode 1x10 "[[Hooves and Harlots]]"
These are semi-historical portrayals: SF-based, but at least intending to be more or less, sort of, about the fabled / historical actual Amazons.
* [[Xena: Warrior Princess]] - see [[Amazons on Xena & Hercules]]
* Hercules movie (1950s)
* ''[[Amazons: Erotic Explorations of Ancient Myths]]'' by [[Tammy Jo Eckhart]] (Amazon erotica)
* [[Sam Merwin]], ''[[Sex War]]''
* ''[[Artemis, Fare Thee Well]]'' by [[Helena Carus]] (1935) (intended to be historical)


[[Category:Organizations & Communities]]
 
[[Category:Characters]]
==Women warrior groups named ''after'' Earth amazons==
* [[Free Amazons]] in [[Marion Zimmer Bradley]]'s [[Darkover]] universe; see particularly ''[[The Shattered Chain]]''
 
==Tribes of women warriors==
* [[Donna Allegra]], "[[A Toast of Babatine]]" Sinister Wisdom (#34) Berkeley, CA (1988). [egalitarian woman-only society]
 
* [[Jayge Carr]], ''[[Leviathan's Deep]]'' (1979). Not human Amazons, but another species in which the women are the dominant sex, and the fighters.
* [[Suzy McKee Charnas]], ''[[Motherlines]]'' (1978)
* [[Suzy McKee Charnas]], ''[[The Furies]]''
* [[Suzy McKee Charnas]], ''[[The Conqueror's Child]]''
* [[Flynn Connolly]], ''[[The Rising of the Moon]]''
* [[Jane Fletcher]], ''[[The World Celaeno Chose]]'' (Dimsdale: London, 1999) - features an all-woman world with several warrior organizations
 
* [[Jane Yolen]], ''[[Sister Light, Sister Dark]]'' and ''[[White Jenna]]''
 
* "[[Born in Flames]]"
 
==YA/Children's==
* ''How the Amazon Queen Fought the Prince of Egypt'' (written & illustrated) by Tamara Bower (2005)
 
==Anthologies==
* Jessica Amanda Salmonson's Amazons! anthology
* [[Jessica Amanda Salmonson]]'s Amazons II anthology
* Margaret Weis. New Amazons.
* Marion Zimmer Bradley's ''[[Sword and Sorceress]]'' series of anthologies
* [[Marion Zimmer Bradley]]'s [[Darkover]] series anthologies, esp. ''[[Free Amazons of Darkover]]'' (free amazon stories show up throughout the series but this volume is concentrated)
* [[Esther Friesner]], ''[[Chicks in Chainmail series]]'' of anthologies, sometimes described as "amazon comedy" or "amazon humor":
** ''[[Chicks in Chainmail]]''
** ''[[Did You Say Chicks?]]''
** ''[[Chicks and Chained Males]]''
** ''[[The Chick is In the Mail]]''
** ''[[Turn the Other Chick]]''
 
==References==
* ''[[The Encyclopedia of Amazons]]'' ed. by [[Jessica Amanda Salmonson]] (1991)
* ''On the Trail of the Women Warriors: The Amazons in Myth and History'' by Lyn Webster Wilde (1991)
* "Egyptians and Amazons", in ''Story-Cycle of King Petubast''
 
==See also==
* [[gender separatism]]
* [[women and war]]
* [[women warriors]]
* [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AmazonBrigade The Amazon Brigade] at TVTropes.org for examples of all-woman bands of warriors
 
[[Category:Mythological peoples]]
[[Category:Historical peoples]]
[[Category:Women's history]]
[[Category:Women's history]]
[[category:Organizations and groups by name]]
[[category:Works featuring matriarchies| Amazons]]

Latest revision as of 08:31, 25 March 2011

The Amazons were a mythical or semi-historical tribe of women warriors. They have often been portrayed in fiction, as in Xena: Warrior Princess, and have had many characters and groups named after them.

Semi-historical portrayals

These are semi-historical portrayals: SF-based, but at least intending to be more or less, sort of, about the fabled / historical actual Amazons.


Women warrior groups named after Earth amazons

Tribes of women warriors

YA/Children's

  • How the Amazon Queen Fought the Prince of Egypt (written & illustrated) by Tamara Bower (2005)

Anthologies

References

See also

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