Amazon
Warriors
Most of us
now know it because of a website but Amazon is generic term for women warriors.
Historians say Amazons were two different matriarchal empires founded ,governed
and defended by women . Other scholars
have assumed that trhe human/half horse warriors in Greek mythology were
description of the Amazon women.
Fu Hao Fu
hao a royal consort who led armies in the Hunan province in china around
1199Bc.She was one of the Chinese noble Women of the Shang dynasty known as Fu
who controlled lands for the emperor.
Marguirete
of Navarre
Known as the
First modern woman, she was outstanding figure during the French Renainssance
was the Queen consort of a king Henry II of Navarre. As a patron of humanists
and reformers, and as an author in her own right, she became the most
influential women in France. Her salon became famously known as the New
Parnassus promoted several artists and writers .
Nehanda ( 1862-1898)
She was a
princes of the Mashona nation of Zimbambwe. She was the military leader of her
people when the British invaded her country .Despite launching several attacks
against the invaders ,she was eventually captured and killed.
Kongo Zingo
Skillful with the sword, bow and naganita, the empress of Japan conquered Korea
in 2o1 Ad . She prohibited her soldiers from raping and plundering cities when
they conquered them. She ruled for 70 years and gave Japan its first written
language.
Wu chao
She ruled
China from 605 to 650 Ad . She ended China’s war with Korea by personally clinching
a victory at sea. She was ruthless in keeping invasions at bay and
surviving several assassination attempts
but an effective leader who gave china decades of peace and prosperity .
Germaine
Greer
The life
magazine called her the saucy feminist who even men like .She was the fatal
diva who renounced the church ,advocated rampant sexual freedom for women,
trashed marriage and the family and fulminated against the imposition of
Western values on indigenous peasant cultures throughout the world.
Queen Isabella
I ruled castile and Aragon jointly with her husband , Ferdinand .Not only she
did help her husband unify the whole of Spain but also sponsored Christopher
Columbus ‘ voyage of discovery. The queen took a special interest in the native
Americans of the new lands; when some were brought back to Spain as slaves she
insisted that be returned and freed’ and she insisted on treating them with
justice and fairness.
Jon of arc
(1412-1431) from being a oppressed woman to one who attains spiritual liberation
.Also called the Maid of Orleans she led the resistance to the English invasion
of France in the Hundred years war.
Simone De
Beauvoir
When her
book the second sex appeared in translation in 1953 it changed the way the West
looked at women. The book analysed the history and implications of female
subjection in Western culture and forced a change in the male gaze.
Rajkumari Amrat Kaur Inspired by Gandhiji, she devoted her
life in active service and founded the All India Women’s Conference and Indian
Red Cross .She was the first women to
hold a post in the cabinet, serving as health minister from 1947 to 1957, after
which she remained the member of Rajya Sabha until her death in 1964.
Begum
Hazrat Mahal The begum of Oudh, wife of
Nawab Wajid Ali Shah ,defended Lucknow against the British during the 1857
mutiny. She rejected the promises of allowance and status held out to her by
the British and was chased from pillar to post but was unrelenting.
Rani laxmi
bai
She was the
regent for her infant and the military advisor for the Jhansi
