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Challenges faced by real and fictional military women and the battle styles of female warriors. Joan of Arc's leadership of French troops in support of Charles VII during the Hundred Years' War and the relation between masculine dress and her virginal warrior persona. The Woman Warrior, Maxine Hong Kingston's retelling of the Chinese folk legend of Fa Mu Lan, who becomes a general after taking her father's place in the imperial army. The physical and political hurdles faced by a woman training to become a Navy SEAL in Ridley Scott's 1997 film, GI Jane.
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