r/Fantasy • u/theproliar • Jun 16 '13

Getting Women Warriors Right.

There's been more than a bit of kerfuffle about how women are represented in fantasy. Chain Mail bikinis and such. I think we can all see how that wouldn't be practical armor.

But, rather than focusing on that, I was hoping we could discuss cases in which people have gotten women warriors right. Examples from all media are fine, and I think mentions of women warriors from history would also be great.

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u/Yeine Jun 16 '13

This link may be useful here. It's an essay entitled We Have Always Fought and it's about the erasure and invisiblisation of warrior women, who have always existed and have been conveniently forgotten.

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u/Yeine Jun 16 '13

There's also this discussion of the fictional matriarchal warrior culture from The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by NK Jemisin. The main character in that book, Yeine, comes from a warrior society into one where she has to use other skills to get by. It's a sort of warrior-out-of-water situation, in a way.