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Kate Elliott


Writing Women Characters Into Epic Fantasy Without Quotas

Writing Women Characters Into Epic Fantasy Without Quotas

Writing Women Characters: Book 2

Kate Elliott

The cold equations of "realism," some claim, suggest there is little scope for women taking an active and interesting role in epic stories set in fantasy worlds based in a pre-modern era. Women's lives in the past were limited, constrained, and passive, they say. To include multiple female characters in dynamic roles is to be in thrall to quotas, anachronisms, Political Correctness, and the sad spectacle and dread hyenas of wish-fulfillment.

Is this true?

Fantasy author Kate Elliott shows that the historical record provides plenty of examples of fully-realized female characters, demonstrating that including women in fantasy stories not only does not trivialize or dull a narrative, it enriches and enlarges the story.

Table of Contents:

  • Introduction
  • Hierarchy, Gender, and Stereotype
  • Class
  • Law
  • Economy, Trade, and Business
  • Politics and Diplomacy
  • Marriage
  • Divorce
  • War and Physicality
  • Women's Work
  • Health, Life Expectancy, and the Role of Women in Medicine
  • Education and Literacy
  • Sex and Modesty
  • Rape
  • Children
  • Single Women
  • A Final Word

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