A Baroque portrait of a woman is multiplied here by five dancers who move mainly in unison and are linked to a feminist heroine.

Is Catwoman a feminist heroine or a villainess?

And the life she made, Ms. Cook insists, qualifies her as a true feminist heroine.

But despite her steady, confident performance, the character remains a generic feminist heroine.

Meanwhile Iris, in the tradition of all 20th-century feminist heroines, is transformed.

Clearly a feminist heroine, she is also an old-fashioned American in many ways.

So is this the new feminist heroine?

Hillary Rodham Clinton is a feminist heroine because she saw to it that her husband never betrayed the feminists.

Conley does not present herself as a feminist heroine.