| When Women Were Warriors Book I Contributor(s): Wilson, Catherine M. (Author), Trifilo, Donna E. (Photographer) |
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ISBN: 0981563619 ISBN-13: 9780981563619 Publisher: Shield Maiden Press OUR PRICE: $14.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2008 Annotation: The classic hero of myth and legend is defined in masculine terms. How, then, can there be an authentic female hero - a hero who is both authentic as a hero and authentic as a woman? While the hero's journey is one of the most ancient and most popular themes of world literature, casting a female protagonist in this classic form is fraught with difficulty. The heroic archetype portrays the hero as the embodiment of the masculine ideal. But to judge a woman by the strengths and virtues of the typical male hero does her an injustice, because women have strengths and virtues of their own. The hero of When Women Were Warriors becomes a hero, not by defeating her enemies in battle, although she does that too, but by learning to master herself and to understand the human heart. She becomes, not a powerful person, but a person of power. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Fantasy - Epic |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.57" H x 6" W x 9" (0.81 lbs) 272 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Sex & Gender - Lesbian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Winner, 2010 EPIC Ebook Award for fiction in the Mainstream category. "Breathtakingly gorgeous writing ... a multi-layered tale of such depth, breadth and insight that it was very nearly a spiritual experience..." --from a review by T. T. Thomas on Amazon.com ..".reminds me of Le Guin, of Cecelia Holland, and something of Rosemary Sutcliff... It made me feel as I did when I was a child reading authors like those... Once again I was in a magical place..." --from a review by Charles Ferguson on Amazon.com ..".there's no ring of power or glowing sword of specialness; the magic, like the tone of the book, is quiet. It feels real." --from a blog review on livejournal When she was a child, the author of When Women Were Warriors happily identified with all the male heroes she read about in stories that began, "Once upon a time, a young man went out to seek his fortune." But she would have been delighted to discover even one story like that with a female protagonist. Since she never did find the story she was looking for all those years ago, she decided to write it. In Book I of the trilogy, Tamras arrives in Merin's house to begin her apprenticeship as a warrior, but her small stature causes many, including Tamras herself, to doubt that she will ever become a competent swordswoman. To make matters worse, the Lady Merin assigns her the position of companion, little more than a personal servant, to a woman who came to Merin's house, seemingly out of nowhere, the previous winter, and this stranger wants nothing to do with Tamras. ..".Both men and women of all persuasions seem to love these books... Very rare. Bravo, Bravo, Bravo " --from a review by T. T. Thomas on Amazon.com "Think Beowulf--only comprehensible and with girls." --from a review on the blog, The Rainbow Reader, by Baxter Clare Trautman, author of The River Within |