{"id":37149,"date":"2023-09-15T22:22:09","date_gmt":"2023-09-15T22:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=37149"},"modified":"2023-09-15T22:22:09","modified_gmt":"2023-09-15T22:22:09","slug":"katie-pickles-heroines-in-history-a-thousand-faces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=37149","title":{"rendered":"Katie Pickles, \u201eHeroines in History: A Thousand Faces\u201c"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Heroines in History:&nbsp;A Thousand Faces <\/em>moves beyond stories of individual heroines, taking a thematic, synthesising and global in scope approach to challenge previous understandings of heroines in history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Responding to Joseph Campbell\u2019s <em>Hero with a Thousand Faces<\/em>, Katie Pickles explores the idea of a transcultural heroine archetype that recurs through time. Each chapter addresses an archetypal theme important for heroines in history. The volume offers a new consideration of the often-awkward position of women in history and embeds heroines in the context of their times, as well as interpreting and analysing how their stories are told, re-told and represented at different moments. To do so it recovers and compares some women now forgotten, along with well-known recent heroines and brings together a diversity of women from around the world. Pickles looks at the interplay of gender, race, heredity status, class and politics in different ways and chronicles the emergence of heroines as historical subjects valued for their substance and achievements, rather than as objects valued for their image and celebrity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In an accessible and original way, the book builds upon developments in women\u2019s and gender history and is essential reading for anyone interested in this field.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Table of Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1 Introduction: the heroine with a thousand faces?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2 Mothers: super-womanly, spiritual Goddess power<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3 Warriors: modern Amazons serving their people<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>4 Callings: from selfless to gloriously selfish<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>5 Cross-dressing: the limits of binary identity<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>6 Death and disability:&nbsp;a heroine\u2019s lot<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>7 Feminist icons and role models: white, female and middle class<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>8 Glamour: all image and no substance?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>9 Conclusion: plastic body parts, celebrity mothers, Perspex cages and a new Joan of Arc<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Katie Pickles<\/strong> is Professor of History at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. She was the recipient of a Te Ap\u0101rangi Royal Society of New Zealand James Cook Research Fellowship for \u2018the heroine with a thousand faces.\u2019 Her research examines heroism, intersectional identities and decolonisation. She is also the author of <em>Female Imperialism and National Identity: Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire <\/em>(2002\/09), <em>Transnational Outrage: The Death and Commemoration of Edith Cavell<\/em> (2007\/15) and <em>Christchurch Ruptures <\/em>(2016).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/Heroines-in-History-A-Thousand-Faces\/Pickles\/p\/book\/9780367902193\">https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/Heroines-in-History-A-Thousand-Faces\/Pickles\/p\/book\/9780367902193<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37150,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-knjige","category-novosti"],"acf":{"facebook_opis":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Heroines.jpg?fit=350%2C532&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":52625,"url":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=52625","url_meta":{"origin":37149,"position":0},"title":"Omer Bartov, \u201eIsrael: What Went Wrong?\u201c","author":"Branimir Jankovi\u0107","date":"23. travnja 2026.","format":false,"excerpt":"Professor Omer Bartov was born on a kibbutz, grew up in Tel Aviv and served in the Israel Defence Forces during the Yom Kippur War. 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