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Amazon feminism is dedicated to the image of the female hero in fiction and in fact, as it is expressed in art and literature in the physiques and feats of female athletes, martial artists, and other powerfully built women, and in gender-related and sexual orientations.

Amazon feminism is concerned about physical equality and is opposed to gender role stereotypes and discrimination against women based on assumptions that women are supposed to be, look or behave as if they are passive, weak, and physically helpless.

Amazon feminism rejects the idea that certain characteristics or interests are inherently masculine (or feminine), and upholds and explores a vision of heroic womanhood. Amazon feminism supports and celebrates women who attain and express mental and physical prowess, for example female strength athletes, martial artists, soldiers/women in combat, firefighters, lumberjacks, astronauts, powerlifters, etc.

The term was introduced in Thomas Gramstad's essay The Female Hero (http://folk.uio.no/thomas/po/female-hero.html) in the essay anthology Feminist Interpretations of Ayn Rand (http://www.nyu.edu/projects/sciabarra/femstart.htm), edited by Mimi Reisel Gladstein and Chris Matthew Sciabarra (http://www.nyu.edu/projects/sciabarra/) (Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999).