One series concerns the rogue and adventurer, Northwest Smith, and his wanderings through the Solar System ; the other is a short fantasy series about Jirel of Joiry ( one of the first female protagonists in sword-and-sorcery fiction ).

The spill-over into mainstream culture, occurred with catsuits being worn by strong female protagonists in popular 1960s TV programs like The Avengers, and in the comic super-heroines such as Catwoman, in which the catsuit represented the independent woman capable of " kick-ass " moves and antics, enabling complete freedom of movement.

Jumping on the spy bandwagon, other writers also started writing about spy fiction featuring female spies as protagonists, such as The Baroness, which has more graphic action and sex, as compared to other novels featuring male protagonists.

Feminism has driven the creation of a considerable body of action-oriented science fiction with female protagonists: Wonder Woman ( actually originally created in 1941 ) and The Bionic Woman during the time of the organized women's movement in the 1970s ; Terminator 2 and the Alien tetralogy in the 1980s ; and Xena, Warrior Princess, comic book character Red Sonja and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Charlotte's Jane Eyre and Emily's Cathy are both examples of female protagonists in such a role.

As female protagonists in novels like Adeline in The Romance of the Forest learn that their superstitious fantasies and terrors are replaced with natural cause and reasonable doubt, the reader may understand the true position of the heroine in the novel:

Portrayals of female homosexuality not only formed European consciousness about lesbianism, but Krafft-Ebbing cited the characters in Gustave Flaubert's Salammbo ( 1862 ) and Ernest Feydeau's Le Comte de Chalis ( 1867 ) as examples of lesbians because both novels feature female protagonists who do not adhere to social norms and express " contrary sexual feeling ", although neither participated in same-sex desire or sexual behavior.

With the proliferation of male protagonists in the spy fiction genre, writers and book packagers also started bringing out spy fiction with a female as the protagonist.

The underlying themes of the film have been the subject of extensive critical discussion ; critics and scholars have interpreted it as a paradigmatic exploitation film in which female protagonists are subjected to brutal, sadistic violence.

Ferber's novels generally featured strong female protagonists, along with a rich and diverse collection of supporting characters.

Bradley encouraged female writers and protagonists: the stories feature skillful swordswomen and powerful sorceresses, working from a variety of motives.

She writes usually with female protagonists in the first person, set in Colonial-Civil War era America or World War I era.

Another new aspect of literary suicides introduced in the Petersburg texts is that authors have shifted their gazes from individuals and their plot-driving actions to presentations of broad political ideologies, which are common to Greek and Roman heroes — this step was taken in order to establish a connection between Russian male protagonists who take their own lives and Classic tragic heroes, whereas the women of the literature remained as microcosms for the stereotyped idea of the female condition.

While Rand scholar Mimi Reisel Gladstein found elements to admire in Rand's female protagonists, she said that readers who have " a raised consciousness about the nature of rape " would disapprove of Rand's " romanticized rapes ".

In Krutch's analysis, Gabler is one of the first fully developed neurotic female protagonists of literature.

On the surface, the story of Butterfly Lovers is one of forbidden love between 2 persons of different social classes, but there is a hidden subtext of unspeakable homosexual love: the protagonists first met, became friends, and fell in love when both of them were supposed to be male students in college ( In the story, the female lead disguised as a male to attend college because social mingling between the sexes was forbidden during the middle age ).

The novels are not a series, but feature a variety of strong female protagonists.

In the early 1990s, Moore and Gebbie began collaborating on Lost Girls, a story in which the female protagonists of Peter and Wendy, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and The Wonderful Wizard of Oz meet and share sexual stories and experiences.

* Roses & Thorns: Beauty and the Beast Retold by Chris Anne Wolfe, a retelling of the classic story where both protagonists are female.

The female protagonists in such stories are driven to suicide as if dying for a cause of freedom from various oppressions of marriage.

* For an overview of female protagonists, compare the list of books at Heroines in literature.

* See Heroines in literature for a list of female protagonists.

Orestes and Pylades carry out the revenge, and consequently Orestes is pursued by the Erinyes ( Furies, female personifications of vengeance ).

Greek stories of the heavens often included a female figure whose virtue and virginity were unspoiled, who pursued more masculine interests, and who was followed by a dedicated group of maidens.

Brown wrote in his alleged memoirs that he had been pursued by several female entertainers including Madonna.

Some pioneers in vocal pedagogy, like Margaret Green and William Vennard, were quick to adopt current scientific research in the 1950s, and pursued capturing the biological process of female falsetto on film.

One of the first films about a fan being disturbingly obsessed with their idol was Clint Eastwood's directorial debut film, Play Misty for Me ( 1971 ), about a California disc jockey pursued by a disturbed female listener ( Jessica Walter ).

According to an article by Martin A. Lee in the Southern Poverty Law Center's Intelligence Report, in 1977 David Duke, then married with two children, pursued female sex partners so avidly and so openly that it embarrassed many of his closest colleagues.

At the relatively small Helmbrechts subcamp near Hof, Germany, the camp commandant, Doerr, openly pursued a sexual relationship with the head female overseer Helga Hegel.

Fifi is also referred to in casting documents as being something of a feminist, as she is the pursuer, as opposed to the more usual female role of pursued.

The party also has a minister for women, and has in recent years pursued a female empowerment agenda.

She pursued her favorite subject-the female experience-in a number of films, including Street Corner ( 1953 ) about women police officers, Somerset Maugham's The Beachcomber ( 1954 ), with Glynis Johns as a resourceful missionary, and a series of comedies about the battle of the sexes, including The Passionate Stranger ( 1957 ), The Truth About Women ( 1958 ) and her final film, Rattle of a Simple Man ( 1964 ).

Courtship is a rough affair for the female, who is pursued, rammed and bitten by the male, before being mounted.

In contrast, in an interview study, sex-selection technology providers generally argued that sex selection is an expression of reproductive rights, was initiated and pursued by women, and was a sign of female empowerment that allowed couples to make well-informed family planning decisions, prevented occurrences of unintended pregnancy and abortion, and minimized intimate partner violence and / or child neglect.

Three rex-coated kittens were born to a straight-haired female, but these were not pursued as a breed.

As they do not receive Holy Orders in the Catholic, Orthodox and Oriental Churches, they do not possess the ability to ordain any religious to Holy Orders, or even admit their members to the non-ordained ministries to which they can be installed by the ordained clergy ( females do not serve as clergy anyway, per formal church teaching, in these churches ), nor do they exercise the authority they do possess under canon law over any territories outside of their monastery and its territory ( though non-cloistered, non-contemplative female religious members who are based in a convent or monastery but who participate in external affairs may assist as needed by the diocesan bishop and local secular clergy and laity, in certain pastoral ministries and administrative and non-administrative functions not requiring ordained ministry or status as a male cleric in those churches or programs ).

hooks points out that these white female reformers were more concerned with white morality than the conditions these morals caused black Americans.

For a girl in puberty, during thelarche ( the breast-development stage ), the female sex hormones ( principally estrogens ) promote the sprouting, growth, and development of the breasts, in the course of which, as mammary glands, they grow in size and volume, and usually rest on her chest ; these development stages of secondary sex characteristics ( breasts, pubic hair, etc.

In cultures where men have traditionally worn skirt-like garments such as the kilt or sarong these are not seen as female clothing, and wearing them is not seen as cross-dressing for men.

Where chloroplasts are inherited only from the female, transgenes in these plastids cannot be disseminated by pollen.

She argued that these terms denigrated the proper and natural function of sexuality, and that such language was inappropriate for female characters such as Madame Raison.

She enters into a dialogue, a movement between question and answer, with these allegorical figures that is from a completely female perspective.

" Cozy mysteries " began in the late 20th century as a reinvention of the Golden Age whodunnit ; these novels generally shy away from violence and suspense and frequently feature female amateur detectives.

Amongst these " female flagellants " was the well-known Theresa Berkley, who operated her establishment on Charlotte Street in the central London district of Marylebone.

Women who engage in female domination typically promote and title themselves under the terms " Dominatrix ", " Mistress ", " Lady ", " Madame "," Herrin " or " Goddess ", with the capitalization of these terms being a signifier to their identification in the dominant role.

In these cases, the position has been filled by a female relative or friend of the president, such as Martha Jefferson Randolph during Jefferson's presidency, Emily Donelson and Sarah Yorke Jackson during Jackson's, Mary Elizabeth ( Taylor ) Bliss during Taylor's, Mary Harrison McKee during Harrison's presidency, upon her mother's death, and Harriet Lane during Buchanan's.

In Radcliffe ’ s The Romance of the Forest, one may follow the female protagonist, Adeline, through the forest, hidden passages and abbey dungeons, “ without exclaiming, ‘ How these antique towers and vacant courts / chill the suspended soul, till expectation wears the cast of fear !”

Hildegard ’ s participation in these arts speaks to her significance as a female rhetorician, transcending bans on women ’ s social participation and interpretation of Scripture.

Mellaart, the original excavator, argued that these well-formed, carefully made figurines, carved and molded from marble, blue and brown limestone, schist, calcite, basalt, alabaster, and clay, represented a female deity of the Great Goddess type.

In these species, haploids are male and diploids heterozygous at the sex locus are female, but occasionally a diploid will be homozygous at the sex locus and develop as a male instead.

Shōjo-ai (" girl love ") is a western term for the female equivalent of shōnen-ai ; in Japan these works are also called yuri.

When examined, female hamsters have their anal and genital openings close together, whereas males have these two holes farther apart ( the penis is usually withdrawn into the coat and thus appears as a hole or pink pimple ).

Women may not lead prayers other than if it is an all female group ( among native Muslims in China ( Hui ), women have traditionally been trained as, and practice, the role of imam among female-only congregations ; these are often the wives of imams ( see Nusi )).

Three of these films, Constance ( 1998 ), Pink Prison ( 1999 ) and the adult / mainstream crossover-feature All About Anna ( 2005 ), were made primarily for a female audience, and were extremely successful in Europe, with the first two being directly responsible for the March 2006 legalizing of pornography in Norway.

Of these, approximately 1410 players reported themselves as male, and 916 as female ; the remaining players either stayed with the default neuter gender, or deliberately chose another.

A lot of these symbols were found in the Minoan palace and they usually accompanied female goddesses.

In 1969 a group of female manga artists ( later called the Year 24 Group, also known as Magnificent 24s ) made their shōjo manga debut (" year 24 " comes from the Japanese name for the year 1949, the birth-year of many of these artists ).

However, due to some difficulties in conclusively identifying these figurines with " mother goddess ", some scholars prefer using the term " female figurines with likely cultic significance ".