The Fiercely Feminine Heroine

What is a feminine heroine like? If we let modern media guide us, the courageous woman is a man in disguise, felling armies with the brute force of her (seductively clad) 140-pound frame. The feminist heroine never tires to assert, to any and every man, “Anything you can do, I can do better.” The “heroine” turns out to be little more than an undersized hero.But if that is the case, most women — or perhaps all women — are excluded from the category. But surely, we can agree that any vision of the