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形容詞

sheroic ‎(comparative more sheroic, superlative most sheroic)

1. (feminism) Heroic in a female or feminist context.
   • 1999, Janice Lee Liddell, "Voyages Beyond Lust and Lactation: The Climacteric as Seen in Novels by Sylvia Wynter, Beryl Gilroy, and Paule Marshall", in Arms Akimbo: Africana Women in Contemporary Literature (eds. Janice Liddell & Yakini Belinda Kemp), University Press of Florida (1999), ISBN 9780813017280, page 36:

     The tragedy of Gatha's sheroic journey is that the actualization of her own importance is never considered "the prize" of her odyssey; hence, she never recognizes the personal and historic success of her journey.

   • 2015, Nancy D. O'Reilly, Leading Women: 20 Influential Women Share Their Secrets to Leadership, Business, and Life, Adams Media (2015), ISBN 9781440584176, page 84:

     This sheroic choice eventually led her to testify compassionately on behalf of faceless and voiceless young girls still living under horrific conditions in the community she had escaped from.

   • 2015, G. L. A. Harris, Living Legends and Full Agency: Implications of Repealing the Combat Exclusion Policy, CRC Press (2015), ISBN 9781466513792, page 37:

     However, in the same vein, she also bemoans that following each of these campaigns, amnesia sets in wherein society tends to conveniently forget about the sheroic lengths to which its women have uniformly performed and without whom the military's successes could not have been achieved.

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