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Women involved in rebellion
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Throughout history several women have been instrumental in either starting or changing the course of a revolution or rebellion.
In history[edit]
- c. 1200 BC, Deborah led a successful Wikipedia:counterattack against Wikipedia:Jabin, king of Wikipedia:Canaan and his military commander Wikipedia:Sisera. Wikipedia:Jael killed Sisera and God gave the victory to Israel. (Judg. 5:23-27)
- In 131 BC, Cleopatra II of Egypt led a rebellion against Wikipedia:Ptolemy VIII Physcon and drove him and Cleopatra III out of Egypt.
- In 14 AD, Mother Lü led a peasant rebellion[1] against Wikipedia:Wang Mang of the Western Wikipedia:Han Dynasty.
- In 40 AD, the TrÆ°ng Sisters successfully rebelled against the Chinese (WP) Han-Dynasty rule, and are regarded as national heroines of Wikipedia:Vietnam.
- In 200 AD Empress Jingū was an Wikipedia:onna bugeisha who led an invasion of Korea after her husband, the fourteenth emperor of Japan, Wikipedia:Emperor Chūai was slain in battle. According to legend, she miraculously led a Japanese conquest of Korea without shedding a drop of blood.
- In 269 AD, Zenobia, Syrian queen of the Wikipedia:Palmyrene Empire led a revolt against the Wikipedia:Roman Empire, expanding the empire and conquering Egypt (WP).
- In 378 AD, Queen Mavia led a rebellion against the Roman army[2] and defeated them repeatedly. The Romans finally negotiated a truce with her on her conditions.[3]
- In 945-963 AD, according to the Wikipedia:Primary Chronicle, Olga of Kiev launched a series of attacks against the Wikipedia:Drevlians and established a system of taxation (Wikipedia:poliudie) as the first Wikipedia:legal reform recorded in Eastern Europe (WP).
- In 1429, Joan of Arc (WP) led the French army to several important victories during the Hundred Years' War (WP) which paved the way for the coronation of Charles VII.
- In 1539, Gaitana led the indigenous people of northern Cauca, Wikipedia:Colombia in armed resistance against colonization by the Spanish. Her monument sculpted by Wikipedia:Rodrigo Arenas stands in Wikipedia:Neiva, the capital of Wikipedia:Huila in Wikipedia:Colombia.
- In 1670, Alyona was a Erzyan Wikipedia:ataman in Wikipedia:Russia. She commanded a detachment of about 600 men and participated in the capture of Wikipedia:Temnikov. She was burned at the stake.
- In 1780, Ñusta Huillac rebelled against the Spanish in Wikipedia:Chile.
- In 1799, [[Wikipedia:Bibi Sahib Kaur/]Bibi Sahib Kaur]] was a Wikipedia:Sikh Wikipedia:princess and Wikipedia:Prime Minister who led armies into battle against the British (WP) and was one of few Indian women to win battles against a British general, and forced George Thomas to withdraw.[4]
- In 1880, at the Battle of Maiwand, Wikipedia:Malalai Anaa was a young Pashtun woman who rallied the Pashtun army against the British troops[5] on 27 July 1880, during the Wikipedia:Second Anglo-Afghan War. She is a Wikipedia:national Wikipedia:folk hero of Afghanistan (WP).
- In 1958, Ani Pachen was a Tibetan Buddhist nun who led a Wikipedia:guerrilla campaign of 600 fighters on horseback against Wikipedia:Communist Chinese Wikipedia:tanks.
In recent history[edit]
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- In 2003, an African peace activists, Leymah Gbowee and Comfort Freeman, organized Wikipedia:Women of Liberia Mass Action for Peace and brought an end to the Wikipedia:Second Liberian Civil War, which led to the election of Wikipedia:Ellen Johnson Sirleaf in Wikipedia:Liberia, the first Wikipedia:African nation with a Wikipedia:female president.[6]
- In 2004, Paraska Korolyuk and Yulia Tymoshenko were iconic figures and key activists of the Wikipedia:Orange Revolution in Ukraine.
- In 2011, twenty-six year old Asmaa Mahfouz was instrumental[7] in sparking the protests that began the uprising in Cairo[8] and started the Wikipedia:2011 Egyptian revolution.[9] She urged the Egyptian people to join her in a protest on January 25 in Wikipedia:Tahrir Square to bring down Mubarak’s regime.[10] She used Wikipedia:video blogging and Wikipedia:social media that went viral[11] and urged people not to be afraid.[12] Wikipedia:Israa Abdel Fattah, also called Facebook Girl; drew the attention of the foreign media[13] to gain international support.
In folklore[edit]
- The story of Cordelia of Britain was used by Shakespeare in his play Wikipedia:King Lear. Before Shakespeare it was also used in Wikipedia:Edmund Spenser's epic Wikipedia:The Faerie Queene and in the anonymous play Wikipedia:King Leir. The popularity of Cordelia at this period is probably because her role as a heroic queen was comparable to Wikipedia:Queen Elizabeth I.[14]
See also[edit]
- Wikipedia:Child soldiers
- Wikipedia:Female diplomats
- Wikipedia:Female heads of government
- Wikipedia:Girls with guns
- Wikipedia:List of women warriors in folklore
- Wikipedia:List of women warriors in folklore, literature, and popular culture
- Wikipedia:Women in the military by country
- Wikipedia:Woman warrior
References[edit]
- Jump up ↑ Lu Mu - mother of a revolution
- Jump up ↑ Sue M. Sefscik. Zenobia. Women's History. URL accessed on 2008-04-01.
- Jump up ↑ Jensen, 1996, pp. 73-75.
- Jump up ↑ "Bibi Sahib Kaur (1771 - 1801 A.D.)", URL accessed 09/02/06
- Jump up ↑ (2004) Afghanistan: the mirage of peace, p. 237, Zed Books. URL accessed 2010-08-22.
- Jump up ↑ CNN, October 31, 2009
- Jump up ↑ Arab Women Lead the Charge
- Jump up ↑ "Women play vital role in Egypt's uprising" (transcript). National Public Radio. February 4, 2011. http://www.npr.org/2011/02/04/133497422/Women-Play-Vital-Role-In-Egypts-Uprising. Retrieved 2011-02-06. </li>
- Jump up ↑ "Revolutionary blogger Asma threatened". Gulf News. February 5, 2011. http://gulfnews.com/news/region/egypt/revolutionary-blogger-asma-threatened-1.757171. Retrieved 2011-02-06. </li>
- Jump up ↑ The New York Times
- Jump up ↑ Egypt: The viral vlog of Asmaa Mahfouz
- Jump up ↑ The Canadian Charger
- Jump up ↑ Egyptian Internet Activist and Blogger Israa Abdel Fattah
- Jump up ↑ Joan Fitzpatrick, Shakespeare, Spenser and the contours of Britain: reshaping the Atlantic archipelago, University of Hertfordshire Press, 2004, p.117.
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