Amazons in the Digital Era
The Reception of the Warrior Woman Image
Herausgeber: Sánchez Sanz, Arturo
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The Reception of the Warrior Woman Image
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Analysing the evolution of the myth of the Amazons that has survived in our imagination for millenia.
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Analysing the evolution of the myth of the Amazons that has survived in our imagination for millenia.
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- Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
- Seitenzahl: 280
- Erscheinungstermin: 2. Oktober 2025
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 20mm
- Gewicht: 587g
- ISBN-13: 9781350462175
- ISBN-10: 1350462179
- Artikelnr.: 72610477
- Herstellerkennzeichnung
- Libri GmbH
- Europaallee 1
- 36244 Bad Hersfeld
- gpsr@libri.de
- Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
- Seitenzahl: 280
- Erscheinungstermin: 2. Oktober 2025
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 20mm
- Gewicht: 587g
- ISBN-13: 9781350462175
- ISBN-10: 1350462179
- Artikelnr.: 72610477
- Herstellerkennzeichnung
- Libri GmbH
- Europaallee 1
- 36244 Bad Hersfeld
- gpsr@libri.de
Arturo Sánchez Sanz is a Postdoctoral Researcher in Classics at Complutense University of Madrid, Spain, and Lecturer in Humanities and Social Sciences at International University of La Rioja, Spain, and International University Isabel I de Castilla, Spain.
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
Introduction. Viral Amazons: The first Influencers in History, Arturo
Sanchez Sanz (Complutense University of Madrid, Spain)
Part One: Marginalisation and Hypersexualisation
1. Amazon Creation Across Female and Male Centred Texts, Connie Skibinski
(Newcastle University, Australia) and Anneka Rene (Auckland University, New
Zealand)
2. The Sexual Katabasis of a 90s Amazon: Sex-Positivity and the Male Gaze
in Artemis: Requiem (1996), Carly Maris (Wilmington College, USA)
3. Where are the Amazons? Absences and Othering of Female and Feminine
Agency in Audiovisual Adaptations of the Trojan War Narrative, Christine
Lehnen (University of Manchester, UK)
4. The Myth of the Amazons is Always in Fashion, Giulia Corrente
(Universita degli studi Roma Tre, Italy)
5. Controllers and Chainmail: Amazon' Costuming in Contemporary Video
Games, Freya Fenton (University of Leicester, UK)
6. Artbook Muses: Hypersexualised Amazons through the Francophone bande
dessiné, Arturo Sanchez Sanz (Isabel I de Castilla University and
Complutense University of Madrid, Spain)
Part Two: Heroic Warrior Women
7. Playing the Amazons and Warrior Women in Tabletop Games, Amy Norgard
(Truman State University, USA)
8. Wonder Women: Searching for Amazons in Myth, Archaeology and
Contemporary Media, Martine Diepenbroek (Johannesburg University, South
Africa)
9. The Coloniality of Power in the Reception of the Amazons in the
Brazilian Wonder Woman, Carlos Eduardo da Costa Campos (Federal University
of Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil) and Luis Filipe Bantim de Assumpção
(University of Vassouras, Brazil)
10. Native American Amazons: Indigenizing Wonder Woman and Beyond, Kendall
Lovely (University of California Santa Barbara, USA)
11. Amazons in Wonderland: The Persistence of Memory in Dalí's Dreams,
Arturo Sanchez Sanz (Isabel I de Castilla University and Complutense
University of Madrid, Spain)
12. Surviving a World of Men: Indigenous African Resistance and the Legacy
of Amazonian Reception in The Woman King (2022), Natalie Swain (University
of Winnipeg, Canada) and Evelyn N. Mayanja (Carleton University, Canada)
Part Three: LGBTQIA+ and Feminist Icons
13. 'Badass Babes' in Pop Culture - A New Embodiment?, Kay Buttfield
(University of the Sunshine Coast and University of Tasmania, Australia)
14. The Documentary Genre as a Social Shaper: The Representation of Amazon
Women as Feminist Icons in Contemporary Documentary Films, Almudena Muñoz
Gallego (Complutense University of Madrid, Spain)
15. "Amazons" for War and Peace: XXI Centuries Movements for Women's Rights
in Ukraine, Arturo Sanchez Sanz (Isabel I de Castilla University and
Complutense University of Madrid, Spain)
16. The New Ukrainian Amazons: Fighting From Herakles to Putin, Arturo
Sanchez Sanz (Isabel I de Castilla University and Complutense University of
Madrid, Spain)
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
Introduction. Viral Amazons: The first Influencers in History, Arturo
Sanchez Sanz (Complutense University of Madrid, Spain)
Part One: Marginalisation and Hypersexualisation
1. Amazon Creation Across Female and Male Centred Texts, Connie Skibinski
(Newcastle University, Australia) and Anneka Rene (Auckland University, New
Zealand)
2. The Sexual Katabasis of a 90s Amazon: Sex-Positivity and the Male Gaze
in Artemis: Requiem (1996), Carly Maris (Wilmington College, USA)
3. Where are the Amazons? Absences and Othering of Female and Feminine
Agency in Audiovisual Adaptations of the Trojan War Narrative, Christine
Lehnen (University of Manchester, UK)
4. The Myth of the Amazons is Always in Fashion, Giulia Corrente
(Universita degli studi Roma Tre, Italy)
5. Controllers and Chainmail: Amazon' Costuming in Contemporary Video
Games, Freya Fenton (University of Leicester, UK)
6. Artbook Muses: Hypersexualised Amazons through the Francophone bande
dessiné, Arturo Sanchez Sanz (Isabel I de Castilla University and
Complutense University of Madrid, Spain)
Part Two: Heroic Warrior Women
7. Playing the Amazons and Warrior Women in Tabletop Games, Amy Norgard
(Truman State University, USA)
8. Wonder Women: Searching for Amazons in Myth, Archaeology and
Contemporary Media, Martine Diepenbroek (Johannesburg University, South
Africa)
9. The Coloniality of Power in the Reception of the Amazons in the
Brazilian Wonder Woman, Carlos Eduardo da Costa Campos (Federal University
of Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil) and Luis Filipe Bantim de Assumpção
(University of Vassouras, Brazil)
10. Native American Amazons: Indigenizing Wonder Woman and Beyond, Kendall
Lovely (University of California Santa Barbara, USA)
11. Amazons in Wonderland: The Persistence of Memory in Dalí's Dreams,
Arturo Sanchez Sanz (Isabel I de Castilla University and Complutense
University of Madrid, Spain)
12. Surviving a World of Men: Indigenous African Resistance and the Legacy
of Amazonian Reception in The Woman King (2022), Natalie Swain (University
of Winnipeg, Canada) and Evelyn N. Mayanja (Carleton University, Canada)
Part Three: LGBTQIA+ and Feminist Icons
13. 'Badass Babes' in Pop Culture - A New Embodiment?, Kay Buttfield
(University of the Sunshine Coast and University of Tasmania, Australia)
14. The Documentary Genre as a Social Shaper: The Representation of Amazon
Women as Feminist Icons in Contemporary Documentary Films, Almudena Muñoz
Gallego (Complutense University of Madrid, Spain)
15. "Amazons" for War and Peace: XXI Centuries Movements for Women's Rights
in Ukraine, Arturo Sanchez Sanz (Isabel I de Castilla University and
Complutense University of Madrid, Spain)
16. The New Ukrainian Amazons: Fighting From Herakles to Putin, Arturo
Sanchez Sanz (Isabel I de Castilla University and Complutense University of
Madrid, Spain)
Notes
Bibliography
Index
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
Introduction. Viral Amazons: The first Influencers in History, Arturo
Sanchez Sanz (Complutense University of Madrid, Spain)
Part One: Marginalisation and Hypersexualisation
1. Amazon Creation Across Female and Male Centred Texts, Connie Skibinski
(Newcastle University, Australia) and Anneka Rene (Auckland University, New
Zealand)
2. The Sexual Katabasis of a 90s Amazon: Sex-Positivity and the Male Gaze
in Artemis: Requiem (1996), Carly Maris (Wilmington College, USA)
3. Where are the Amazons? Absences and Othering of Female and Feminine
Agency in Audiovisual Adaptations of the Trojan War Narrative, Christine
Lehnen (University of Manchester, UK)
4. The Myth of the Amazons is Always in Fashion, Giulia Corrente
(Universita degli studi Roma Tre, Italy)
5. Controllers and Chainmail: Amazon' Costuming in Contemporary Video
Games, Freya Fenton (University of Leicester, UK)
6. Artbook Muses: Hypersexualised Amazons through the Francophone bande
dessiné, Arturo Sanchez Sanz (Isabel I de Castilla University and
Complutense University of Madrid, Spain)
Part Two: Heroic Warrior Women
7. Playing the Amazons and Warrior Women in Tabletop Games, Amy Norgard
(Truman State University, USA)
8. Wonder Women: Searching for Amazons in Myth, Archaeology and
Contemporary Media, Martine Diepenbroek (Johannesburg University, South
Africa)
9. The Coloniality of Power in the Reception of the Amazons in the
Brazilian Wonder Woman, Carlos Eduardo da Costa Campos (Federal University
of Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil) and Luis Filipe Bantim de Assumpção
(University of Vassouras, Brazil)
10. Native American Amazons: Indigenizing Wonder Woman and Beyond, Kendall
Lovely (University of California Santa Barbara, USA)
11. Amazons in Wonderland: The Persistence of Memory in Dalí's Dreams,
Arturo Sanchez Sanz (Isabel I de Castilla University and Complutense
University of Madrid, Spain)
12. Surviving a World of Men: Indigenous African Resistance and the Legacy
of Amazonian Reception in The Woman King (2022), Natalie Swain (University
of Winnipeg, Canada) and Evelyn N. Mayanja (Carleton University, Canada)
Part Three: LGBTQIA+ and Feminist Icons
13. 'Badass Babes' in Pop Culture - A New Embodiment?, Kay Buttfield
(University of the Sunshine Coast and University of Tasmania, Australia)
14. The Documentary Genre as a Social Shaper: The Representation of Amazon
Women as Feminist Icons in Contemporary Documentary Films, Almudena Muñoz
Gallego (Complutense University of Madrid, Spain)
15. "Amazons" for War and Peace: XXI Centuries Movements for Women's Rights
in Ukraine, Arturo Sanchez Sanz (Isabel I de Castilla University and
Complutense University of Madrid, Spain)
16. The New Ukrainian Amazons: Fighting From Herakles to Putin, Arturo
Sanchez Sanz (Isabel I de Castilla University and Complutense University of
Madrid, Spain)
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
Introduction. Viral Amazons: The first Influencers in History, Arturo
Sanchez Sanz (Complutense University of Madrid, Spain)
Part One: Marginalisation and Hypersexualisation
1. Amazon Creation Across Female and Male Centred Texts, Connie Skibinski
(Newcastle University, Australia) and Anneka Rene (Auckland University, New
Zealand)
2. The Sexual Katabasis of a 90s Amazon: Sex-Positivity and the Male Gaze
in Artemis: Requiem (1996), Carly Maris (Wilmington College, USA)
3. Where are the Amazons? Absences and Othering of Female and Feminine
Agency in Audiovisual Adaptations of the Trojan War Narrative, Christine
Lehnen (University of Manchester, UK)
4. The Myth of the Amazons is Always in Fashion, Giulia Corrente
(Universita degli studi Roma Tre, Italy)
5. Controllers and Chainmail: Amazon' Costuming in Contemporary Video
Games, Freya Fenton (University of Leicester, UK)
6. Artbook Muses: Hypersexualised Amazons through the Francophone bande
dessiné, Arturo Sanchez Sanz (Isabel I de Castilla University and
Complutense University of Madrid, Spain)
Part Two: Heroic Warrior Women
7. Playing the Amazons and Warrior Women in Tabletop Games, Amy Norgard
(Truman State University, USA)
8. Wonder Women: Searching for Amazons in Myth, Archaeology and
Contemporary Media, Martine Diepenbroek (Johannesburg University, South
Africa)
9. The Coloniality of Power in the Reception of the Amazons in the
Brazilian Wonder Woman, Carlos Eduardo da Costa Campos (Federal University
of Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil) and Luis Filipe Bantim de Assumpção
(University of Vassouras, Brazil)
10. Native American Amazons: Indigenizing Wonder Woman and Beyond, Kendall
Lovely (University of California Santa Barbara, USA)
11. Amazons in Wonderland: The Persistence of Memory in Dalí's Dreams,
Arturo Sanchez Sanz (Isabel I de Castilla University and Complutense
University of Madrid, Spain)
12. Surviving a World of Men: Indigenous African Resistance and the Legacy
of Amazonian Reception in The Woman King (2022), Natalie Swain (University
of Winnipeg, Canada) and Evelyn N. Mayanja (Carleton University, Canada)
Part Three: LGBTQIA+ and Feminist Icons
13. 'Badass Babes' in Pop Culture - A New Embodiment?, Kay Buttfield
(University of the Sunshine Coast and University of Tasmania, Australia)
14. The Documentary Genre as a Social Shaper: The Representation of Amazon
Women as Feminist Icons in Contemporary Documentary Films, Almudena Muñoz
Gallego (Complutense University of Madrid, Spain)
15. "Amazons" for War and Peace: XXI Centuries Movements for Women's Rights
in Ukraine, Arturo Sanchez Sanz (Isabel I de Castilla University and
Complutense University of Madrid, Spain)
16. The New Ukrainian Amazons: Fighting From Herakles to Putin, Arturo
Sanchez Sanz (Isabel I de Castilla University and Complutense University of
Madrid, Spain)
Notes
Bibliography
Index







