为现代读者重新讲述的《女神和女英雄》为来自各种活力满满的文化的故事赋予了生命力。 我们遇到了年轻的阿芙罗狄蒂；赫卡特，数学奇才；英勇的花木兰；尼日利亚女神奥顺（Oshun），她的深谋远虑引发了一场使奴隶得到解放的叛乱。还有教母巴巴•雅加（Baba Yaga）。每位女神的名人风格简介都确认了她的主演角色，她的配角，通过什么符号发现她，在其他媒体上看到的名人，以及在现代生活中，她成为了谁的灵感来源。

书后附录包括关于女神和女英雄如何获得神话地位，神话如何传承和发展的信息，以及一张显示世界各地的女神和她们如何相互联系的地图。

Told afresh for a contemporary readership, Goddesses & Heroines brings alive stories from a variety of cultures with palpable energy. We meet the youthful Aphrodite; Hecate, the maths whizz; the heroic Mulan; Oshun, the Nigerian goddess whose foresight sparked a rebellion that freed slaves; and the not-so-fair-y godmother Baba Yaga, whose bone-crunching approach to life will be an inspiration to any power-hungry young thing. A celebrity-style profile for each goddess identifies her starring role, her supporting actors, what symbols to spot her by, celebrity sightings in other media and who she has been an inspiration to in contemporary life.

The endmatter includes information on how goddesses and heroines achieved their mythic status, how myths are passed on and evolve, and a map of goddesses from around the globe and how they are inter-connected.