Union of Soviet Socialist Republics women air fighters WWII 216–40
see also Russia
United States
Constitution
19th Amendment 244–5
Equal Rights Amendment 261
feminist writings 241–4, 260–1
Uyuk people
tombs ‘Valley of the Kings’ 56–67
Vandals, and Alans 103
Vershinin, General Konstantin
on Night Bombers 225
issues underwear 230–1
Vespucci, Amerigo, and Brazil 132–3
Virgil, Aeneid 178
Vogel, Henriette, suicide with Kleist 189–90
Völkerwanderung 102
Voltaire 169, 171
and du Boccage 173, 178, 180
denies Amazons 171, 173
on Les Amazones 177
Waorani (Huaorani) people, Ecuador 24, 135–6, 144, 215
Weimar 182
Wells, H. G., Sanger and 245
Westphalia Treaty 168
Whydah (Ouidah) viceroy 199
Wilmott, Arthur, on Dahomey women’s army superior to men 193
Winckelmann, Johann, on art 181
Woman Rebel (magazine) 244
women
and aviation, USSR 216–40
Greek men threatened by 25
in French Revolution, Schiller on 184
in science, Benedict XIV and 178–80
warriors, kurgans 54–6
Uyuk Culture 57–61, 65–7
see also Amazons
Women’s Battalion of Death (WWI) 216
Women’s Christian Temperance Union 215–16
Women’s Defence Units (YPJ), Kurdish Syria 269–73
Wonder Woman xvi-xvii, 241–2, 253, 255–62
70s TV series 261
as role model 261
bracelets 256, 258
influence 260–2
Lasso of Truth 258
links to classical Greece 255–8
UN ambassador for the Empowerment of Women and Girls 2016 261
Woolley, Mary, and suffrage movement 244
Wytfliet, Cornelius, puts Amazones on map 149
Xinjiang oasis burials 86
Yablonsky, Leonid, on Pokrovka kurgans 96–101
Yak-1 fighter planes 222, 228, 229
Yakovlev, Alexander, Yak-1
fighter planes 222
Yanomamo people 145–6
Yazidi (Ezidi) people, IS and 269
Yenisei River 61
Yevdokimov, Sasha 235–6
Yisungge, flight archery 106
Yoruba people, Nigeria 193, 206, 207
Zakynthos 19–20
Zen archery 111
Zeus xvi, xviii, 5, 12, 188, 204
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