Female protagonist

Works which feature female protagonists offer a number of opportunities for feminist creation:

• female point of view (if written from protagonist's POV);
  • could experience and observe gendered treatment
  • offer a female character for readers to identify with, good for women and men alike;
• female action

A female protagonist — even a "strong" female protagonist — does not by itself define a work as non-sexist or feminist treatment. For instance, Friday and Podkayne in Robert A. Heinlein's novels, Friday and Podkayne of Mars, are often felt to be sexist treatments of strong female characters.