The impulse that prompts humans to envision themselves as heroic is as inherent to women as to men. The idealization of the hero, however, is an outgrowth of th

World-renowned folklorist Maria Tatar reveals an astonishing but long-buried history of heroines, taking us from Cassandra and Scheherazade to Nancy Drew and Wo

Ever since women in the West first started publishing works of fiction, they have written about a heroine who must wander from one place to another as she searc

This collection examines transnational Asian American women characters in various fictional narratives. It analyzes how certain heroines who are culturally root