Meanings
- rareuncountableThe quality of being an antiheroine.
These same readers act against her when she oversteps the boundaries of prescribed female domains. But the writings which cause her to become a martyr are in fact a sort of antiheroinism.
1993, Daly, Pierrette, Heroic tropes : gender and intertext, page 692 more examples
I contend that each level of resistance bears a certain idiosyncrasy, as each layer of temporality not only conducts a different interrelation with antiheroinism but also reflects a different form of antiheroinism.
2022, Yael Levy, Chick TV: Antiheroines and Time Unbound, page 145Interestingly, in their introduction to Antiheroines of Contemporary Media (2020), Melanie Haas, N. A. Pierce and Gretchen Busl argue that 'antiheroinism is a more realistic depiction of women, as women are far more complex and require a far more sophisticated representation than other standard tropes allow' (13).
2024, Eleanore Gardner, Disruptive Women of Literature: Rooting for the Antiheroine, page 6
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