Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part 1. Process

India’s rebel queen : Rani Lakshmi Bai and the 1857 uprising

Historians and Nehanda of Zimbabwe in history and memory

Women warriors or mothers of the fatherland: hero cults and gender in Basque nationalism

Part 2. Violence

Murderous daughters as “exemplary women” : filial piety, revenge, and heroism in early modern and modern Japan

Women warriors and the mobilization of colonial memory in the nineteenth-century United States

From the nation to emancipation : Greek women warriors from the Revolution (1820s) to the Civil War (1940s)

Part 3. Gender fluidity

Madeleine de Verchères (1678–1747) : woman warrior of French

Jeanne d’Arc, Arab hero : warrior women, gender confusion, and feminine political authority in the Arab-Ottoman

Gender and transgender in the Mexican revolution : the shifting memory of Amelio Robles

Part 4. Survivors

“Amazons” in the pantheon? Women warriors, nationalism, and hero cults in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Chile and Peru

Commemorating China’s wartime spies : red agents Guan Lu and Jiang Zhuyun, and the problem of female fidelity

Vietnam’s martial women : the costs of transgressing boundaries