This volume presents women warriors and hero cults from different cultures since the early modern period. The chapters examine figures such as Joan of Arc in Cairo, revenging daughters in Samurai Japan, a transgender Mexican revolutionary and WWII Chinese spies. Exploring issues of violence, gender fluidity and memory, the authors discuss how these real or imagined female figures were constructed and inserted in different national and transnational contexts.. .Divided into four parts, the book examines how women warriors and their stories were created, considers the theme violent woman, discusses how these female figures were gendered and focuses on the fate of women warriors who live on. The chapters explore women as military actors, women after war and the strategic use of women’s stories in national narratives.