Tumblr user Tica has created a blog dedicated to fixing the armor of warrior women in pop culture. The blog is called Repair Her Armor and according to the description “is dedicated to show and ...

In most cases when armor is mentioned at all, historical women warriors are described as wearing hauberks, the chain mail shirts that protected the arms, torso, and upper thighs. The Anglo-Norman ...

The armor worn by female warriors in movies, TV shows and comic books is often so comically skimpy it’s unbelievable. It’s as if the enemy can be defeated by sheer hotness. Male heroes might ...

When Major Kathleen Yancosek was stationed in Afghanistan, she found herself doing battle against her own body armor. The bulky ... over her chin (a phenomenon female soldiers call “turtling”).

The US military is developing “Xena: Warrior Princess”-style body armor for women that it hopes will give them greater protection on the battlefield, with more curves in the chest and hips.

581 included the remains of two horses, “a sword, an axe, a spear, a battle knife, two shields and 25 arrows strong enough to pierce armour ... was female. The unnamed woman warrior of ...