Ancient Amazons – Heroes, Outsiders or Women?
By Lorna Hardwick
Greece and Rome, Vol.37:1 (1990)
Abstract: The network of associations of the word Amazon still plays a part in the shorthand of modern discourse. Its connotations may vary from a slightly comic praise of sporting excellence in women to underlying insinuations that Amazons are not quite feminine. When applied by politicians and journalists to the women in the Peace Camp at Greenham Common during the 1980s, for example, the epithet Amazon carried the implication that these women rejected men and had developed a society apart (therefore (s?c) they must be subversives, lesbians, communists, hippies
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By Lorna Hardwick
Greece and Rome, Vol.37:1 (1990)
Abstract: The network of associations of the word Amazon still plays a part in the shorthand of modern discourse. Its connotations may vary from a slightly comic praise of sporting excellence in women to underlying insinuations that Amazons are not quite feminine. When applied by politicians and journalists to the women in the Peace Camp at Greenham Common during the 1980s, for example, the epithet Amazon carried the implication that these women rejected men and had developed a society apart (therefore (s?c) they must be subversives, lesbians, communists, hippies
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