Miriam Hanson, in “ Pleasure, Ambivalence, Identification: Valentino and Female Spectatorship ” ( 1984 ) put forth the idea that women are also able to view male characters as erotic objects of desire.

Female characters were generally distressed damsels to be rescued or protected, or otherwise served as an inducement or reward for a male hero's adventures.

Female characters often have very minor roles in yaoi, or are absent altogether.

Stowe, a Connecticut-born teacher at the Hartford Female Academy and an active abolitionist, featured the character of Uncle Tom, a long-suffering black slave around whom the stories of other characters revolve.

Manolith listed Princess Peach as one of the characters on their " 25 Hottest Female Videogame Protagonists " list, especially citing her Strikers outfit.

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Female dollars are also found who represent male characters, especially male characters that lend themselves to the treatment, such as robots, space aliens and animals.

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Female characters ranged from the sexually provocative to the laughable.

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Female characters ( except Sun Shang Xiang, Zhu Rong and Wang Yi ) who did not participate in any battles in the novel or in history are depicted as fearsome female warriors with exceptional fighting skills and weapons.

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It is from Von Stalhein that Biggles learns that Janis ( see " Female characters " below ) survived World War II and was imprisoned in Czechoslovakia, from where Biggles rescues her and goes on to support her in England.

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Female performers were popularly viewed as morally akin to prostitutes, and Sickert's painting Katie Lawrence at Gatti's, which portrayed a well known music hall singer of the era, incited controversy " more heated than any other surrounding an English painting in the late 19th century.

Female Trouble is a 1974 dark comedy film co-composed, filmed, co-edited, written, produced, and directed by John Waters starring Divine, David Lochary, Mary Vivian Pearce, Mink Stole, Edith Massey, Michael Potter, Cookie Mueller, and Susan Walsh.

Female breasts were also prominent in the Minoan civilization in the form of the famous Snake Goddess statuettes.

Female genital mutilation ( FGM ), also known as female genital cutting and female circumcision, is defined by the World Health Organization ( WHO ) as " all procedures that involve partial or total removal of the external female genitalia, or other injury to the female genital organs for non-medical reasons.

Female deities also play heavily into the Norse concept of death, where half of those slain in battle enter Freyja's field Fólkvangr, Hel receives the dead in her realm of the same name, and Rán receives those who die at sea.

Female art students known as the " cropheads " also adopted the style, notably at the Slade School in London, England.

Female hamsters are also particularly sensitive to disturbances while giving birth, and may even eat their own young if they think they are in danger, although sometimes they are just carrying the pups in their cheek pouches.

It was first published in Sexual Behavior in the Human Male ( 1948 ) by Alfred Kinsey, Wardell Pomeroy and others, and was also prominent in the complementary work Sexual Behavior in the Human Female ( 1953 ).

Female criminals were also more likely to be burned at the stake as opposed to being hanged during execution.

At the 33rd Grammy Awards, Abdul won her first Grammy for Best Music Video for " Opposites Attract ", She was also nominated for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for her song " Straight Up " but it lost to Bonnie Raitt's " Nick of Time ".

The album also won Crow three Grammy Awards, in 1995: Record of the Year, Best New Artist and Best Female Vocal Performance.

The Woman in Me won the Grammy Award for Best Country Album as well as the Academy of Country Music award for Album of the Year ; the latter group also awarded Twain as Best New Female Vocalist.

He is best known for writing " Sexual Behavior in the Human Male " ( 1948 ) and Sexual Behavior in the Human Female " ( 1953 ), also known as the Kinsey Reports, as well as the Kinsey scale.

She was also ranked No. 12 in their Top 50 Favorite Female TV Characters.

AOL also listed her as one of the 100 Most Memorable Female TV Characters.

Female members of the Skoptsy sect in Imperial Russia also practiced mastectomy as a ritual.

She also ran the Ministries of Labor and Health, founded and ran the charitable Eva Perón Foundation, championed women's suffrage in Argentina, and founded and ran the nation's first large-scale female political party, the Female Peronist Party.

In addition to her Grammy for " Let Me Be There ", Newton-John was also named the Country Music Association Female Vocalist of the Year in 1974, defeating more established nominees Loretta Lynn, Canadian Anne Murray, Dolly Parton and Tanya Tucker.

Several months later, the first release from Male or Female, also known as Morf, a new project for Bresanutti and Codenys along with vocalist Elko Blijweert.

The Buckman Act also consolidated the colleges and schools into three institutions segregated by race and gender — the University of the State of Florida for white men, the Florida Female College for white women, and the State Normal School for Colored Students for African-American men and women.

Female genital mutilation ( FGM ), also known as female genital cutting ( FGC ), female circumcision, or female genital mutilation / cutting ( FGM / C ), refers to " all procedures involving partial or total removal of the external female genitalia or other surgery of the female genital organs whether for cultural, religious or other non-therapeutic reasons.

Gun Crazy was selected for the National Film Registry, and is also known as Deadly Is the Female.

She's So Unusual led Lauper to win an award at the 1985 Grammy Awards: Best New Artist, the album also won the Grammy for Best Album Package, this award went to the art director, Janet Perr ; Additionally, it received four nominations ; Album of the Year, Record of the Year and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for " Girls Just Want To Have Fun ", and Song of the Year for " Time After Time ".

Other Female Teen Pop stars such as Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, Mandy Moore and Jessica Simpson also became very popular at the end of the decade.

Female examples are Inanna, also known as Ishtar, whose cult dates to 4000 BCE, and Persephone, the central figure of the Eleusinian Mysteries, whose cult may date to 1700 BCE as the unnamed goddess worshiped in Crete.

She was also involved in the creation of Wheaton Female Seminary ( now Wheaton College, Massachusetts ) in 1834.