Tamora Pierce’s YA books play with this. Her first character is a girl who becomes a knight and hates girly stuff. But in the third book she starts learning to embrace it. It’s a magic fantasy world, so there’s certain types of magic you can do with “women’s tools”. The men, of course, don’t take it seriously but there’s little more dangerous than a woman with a piece of string in her hands
Tamora Pierce’s YA books play with this. Her first character is a girl who becomes a knight and hates girly stuff. But in the third book she starts learning to embrace it. It’s a magic fantasy world, so there’s certain types of magic you can do with “women’s tools”. The men, of course, don’t take it seriously but there’s little more dangerous than a woman with a piece of string in her hands