Philip Caudrey is a medieval historian at the University of Tasmania. He is the author of Military Society and the Court of Chivalry in the Age of the Hundred Years War. This is his first foray into film history. He has been a fan of the ‘action heroine’ sub-genre since he was a small child. He lives in Hobart, Tasmania.
The ‘action heroine’ has never been more popular than she is today, with the likes of The Hunger Games (2012), Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) and Wonder Woman (2017) granting her a newfound prominence in Hollywood filmmaking. When most knowledgeable action fans think of the action heroine historicall...