Thursday, 5 November 2026

Twenty Strong Women Characters In Poul Anderson's Works

Betty Riefenstahl
Coya Conyon
Tabitha Falkayn
Persis d'Io
Djana
Aline Chang-Lei
Luang
Kit Kittredge
Ella McIntyre
Kathryn McCormac
Tatiana Thane
Fraina of Jubilee
Miriam Abrams
Diana Crowfeather
Graydal
Dagny
Yasmin
Evalyth Sairn
Janne Floris
Wanda Tamberly

As usually happens, I am finding that there are more than I had bargained for and I do not want to go and look up names at this time of night. However, I have just found several on the blog instead of going upstairs to check future history volumes.

Contrast James Bond's attitude:

"These blithering women who thought they could do a man's work. Why the hell couldn't they stay at home and mind their pots and pans and stick to their frocks and gossip and leave men's work to the men."
-Casino Royale, CHAPTER 15, p. 105.

(I said that it was difficult to choose between cover images so here is another.)

It is worse in Goldfinger: homosexuality results from giving women the vote.

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