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History has stories of women warriors. Separating truth from fiction doesn't matter when one is writing fiction. In real life the truth is often lost due to men writing the history and not wanting to give proper dues to the women who made their own history. Shield-Maidens, Amazons, and Mary a disciple of Christ, all denied by most historians.
A short history of one Viking Shield Maiden recently reviled
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birka_grave_Bj_581
Amazons weren't only a Greek legend. We will probably never know the whole history.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2019/12/31/amazons-we...
Have fun writing your tales. Maybe with a little inspiration from the women warriors of the past, the stories will come alive. Women are the strongest of the sexes. If men were the ones who gave birth there wouldn't be any babies.
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Barb
Those who don't study history are doomed to repeating it.
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If men gave birth, families would be limited to one child. Men would never willingly do it second time.
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Patricia
Happiness is being all dressed up and HAVING some place to go.
Semper in femineo gerunt
Battle Cries and Lullabies
Back in the late 90s I helped research a book that covered this subject entitled "Battle Cries and Lullabies" by Linda Grant DePauw, my thesis advisor. She's written several books on the history of women in war and during war, from The earliest archaeological evidence to the American Revolution to First World War.
https://www.amazon.com/Battle-Cries-Lullabies-Prehistory-Pre...
There's also "The Tradition of Female Transvestism in Early Modern Europe" By Rudolf M. Dekker and Lotte C. Van de Pol, for those interested in people going the other way.....
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=the+tradition+of+Female+transvest...