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* Hercules movie (1950s) | * Hercules movie (1950s) | ||
* ''[[Amazons: Erotic Explorations of Ancient Myths]]'' by [[Tammy Jo Eckhart]] (Amazon erotica) | * ''[[Amazons: Erotic Explorations of Ancient Myths]]'' by [[Tammy Jo Eckhart]] (Amazon erotica) | ||
* Merwin, | * [[Sam Merwin]], ''[[Sex War]]'' | ||
* ''[[Artemis, Fare Thee Well]]'' by [[Helena Carus]] (1935) (intended to be historical) | |||
==Women warrior groups named ''after'' Earth amazons== | ==Women warrior groups named ''after'' Earth amazons== | ||
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* ''[[The Encyclopedia of Amazons]]'' ed. by [[Jessica Amanda Salmonson]] (1991) | * ''[[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) | * ''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== | ==See also== | ||
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[[Category:Historical peoples]] | [[Category:Historical peoples]] | ||
[[Category:Women's history]] | [[Category:Women's history]] | ||
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[[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.
- 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)
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
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":
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
- The Amazon Brigade at TVTropes.org for examples of all-woman bands of warriors