tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2564536137041993314.post6998769047711902270..comments2019-02-07T23:16:32.287-06:00Comments on Post Medieval: A Brief History of Amazon Womentom blakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13413834098471441074noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2564536137041993314.post-19199665153951411062014-12-09T15:00:09.032-06:002014-12-09T15:00:09.032-06:00I thought your point about how the Amazon label pl...I thought your point about how the Amazon label places these mythical women in between the perceived female opposite roles is a really good one. This Amazon role might be the closest that a female character in medieval literature can get to a "trickster" role, since they deny both sexual innocence and sexual guilt and engage themselves in behavior traditionally seen as masculine, like fighting. In this way, they escape the dichotomy of female roles in medieval society and engage in tasks independent of men's desires or even a male presence. The fact that they engaged social attention through history, and also that they were never cast as villains, proves that they created a valuable middle ground in the perception of females in society and myth. This ambivalent role is a source of power for Amazons, but it also throws society for a loop: humans like things (especially myths) to be concrete, and Amazons are not that. This ambivalent role gives them a lot of power, but it also makes them confusing figures, and people begin to project whatever they think of them onto the figures themselves: either as a potent feminist icon, or a exciting, sexually charged challenge that's eventually tamed. The only thing the Amazon, and Wonder Woman, are not seen as is human beings, and that might represent the true limitation of the archetypeAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06781548228310810055noreply@blogger.com